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The Wilmington morning star., 1946-10-06
Thursday Music
Club Will Hold
Meet This Week
Mrs. Louis Hanson And Mrs.
J. D. Edwards Will Be
Speakers Of Morning

The Thursday Morning Music CLUB
will hold the first meeting OF the
fill season on October 10, at 1O:3o
o.cock in st. James Great Hail.
Prior to the general meeting the
executive board will convene al
10 o'clock.
Mrs. Louis Hanson and Mrs. j..
D. Edwards will speak on Fedora
ton Day and the state project
plan for the year.
Following the short business
meeting a musical program will
be presented.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-10-06
Fear Garden
Club Meets Tuesday
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CONTINUED From Page One)
address the meeting. The program
will center around the theme. Wild
Flowers of North Carolina
and Mrs. Totten will have on dis
play pictures of the many wild
flowers of the state. Her husband
is professor of botany at the Uni
,versity of North Carolina. All mem
'bers having wild flowers they
would like to have identified may
bring them to this meeting.
: Immediately following the pro-
igram a coffee hour will be held
honoring the members of the Book
club organizer Of the present Cape
Fear Garden club.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-10-06
Social Service
League To Meet

The Social Service League will
hold a meeting on Tuesday after.
noon at 3 o'clock in the st. PAM.
Episcopal parish house. 18th and
Market street.
An interesting program has been
planned and members are request.
ed to be present.
Evening star., 1946-05-10
By Harry Macarthur

The leading depressant in Ora.
gonWyck." which arrived yesterday
on the Capitol screen, is a mar
named Nicholas Van Ryn, whose
antisocial habit it is to go about
feeding poison to his wives Wher
they, fail to produce male offspring
to carry on the Van Ryn name. He
is one of the last of the old Dutch
patrons. though he does not know
it at the time, and feels quite strong
ly that it is his duty to leave be-
hind a son so the farmers will have
some one to pay rent and tribute
to. He is so dotty on this score
that life around Dragonwyck is
more than a little trying for all
concerned.
1t is especially trying for the
first Mrs. Van Ryn, who gives Nicho-
las a daughter to his profound dis
appointment and subsequently comes
to not unexpected end caused by
complications of head cold and a
piece of cake favored with rum and
poison from Nicks pet oleander
plant 1t is almost, but not quite
equally, as trying for the second
Mrs. Van Ryn, whose son dies i'm
mediately after his christening,
whereupon she takes to her room
ailing with disfavor and general
puniness. She is not half so wor-
ried over her future as the more
susceptible members of the audience
when Nicholas brings his oleander
plant in to brighten her sickroom
Nicholas, of course, is not respon-
sible for certain divergence from
normality that might be noted in
his behaviour. His great-grand-
mother once put curse on the en-
tire Van Ryn line, according to one
of the hired help around the house,
and destined it for destruction. Part
of the curse includes eerie music
vocal and harpsichord solo) which
is heard at critical moments by
Nicholas and his daughter, but by
no one who is not Van Ryn lex
cepting, certainly, all innocent on
lockers in the theater). We heard
it. too, so if you do it is alright.
Don't fear you are as batty as a
Van Ryn.
X X X
Readers of Anya Seton's novel of
the same name will have little cause
to quibble over "DragonWyck. :"
Evening star., 1946-05-10

movement, supposedly the first es-
sential of popular picture. It's
action is laid mostly in great draw
ing rooms and on grand staircases.
however, which may come as a sur
prise to those who fancied a girl
of Kittys fair in more intimate sur
roundings.
Paramount, as we said, has been
no less than Croesus- like in pro-
riding frame for it's out-of -burlap
Galatea and its performers have
been imbued with an equally un-
restrained sense of her dramatic
Importance. Miss Goddards i'm
personation of her is quite a fetch
ing thing in its way, enough to make
it quite clear why English blades of
all ages should cavil to her charms.
Milland's performance is naturally
less ingratiating, but good as it is
permitted to be. Others who do
their chores agreeably are Reginald
Owen, Cecil Kellaway and Con-
stance Collier, as the old duke with
the leer, the artist Gainsborough
and the gin-sotted old Lady Susan
Dewitt, respectively.
That's Kitty" for you.
Evening star., 1946-05-10
Where and When
Current Theoter Attractions
and Time Of Showing
Clara

| stage.
NatiOnal-"Merry Wives of Wind
sor"; $3.50 pm
Catholic University That's
Where the Money Goes; $50 pm
| Screen.
Capitol "Dragonwyck" 10:45
am, 1880, 4:20, 7:1O and 10 pm
Stage shows: 12:45, 3:35, 6:25 and
9:10 pm.
Columbia - Bad Bascomb":: II
am, los, $40, Sis, 7:20 and $50
pm.
Earle-"Road to Utopia: 1O:45
am, l, $40, $40, 7:30 and GAS pm
Hippodrome-"Ret to Yester-
day: 2:30, 4:05, $40, tbs, $50 and
1910 pm.
Keith's-"Spiral Staircase; 11:15
am, l:25, $3.50, $40, 7:45 and 9:55
pm.
Prisoner of Zenda":: II Is
am, lis, 3:15, $50, 7:2O and 9:35
pm.
Metropolitan - THE Bandit of
Sherwood Forest: 11:20 am, l:25,
$50, 5:35, TAO and 9:45 pm.
Palace-"Kitty":: 1O:45 am, 1855,
3:0o, Sis, 7:25 and 9:35 pm.
Pix-"Dr Sim; 2:35, 5:15, 7:50
and 1918 pm.
Trans-Lux-News and shorts.
Continuous from 1915 am.
Evening star., 1946-05-10
itself lowering over the second Mrs

itself lowering over the second Mrs
Van Ryn.
The lighting is of the sinister type
too, the whole thing having beer
filmed in semidarkness, as if in a
"broWnout" Makes the characters
lurk, instead of moving about
normally. Mr.. Mankiewicz has just
laid on with. too heavy a hand
showing his drama right out of the
melodramatic into the realm of the
tedious. He even has seen fit to
employ our old friend, the violent
thunderstorm, as prelude to mur-
der, just as if that never happened
on mild spring evening.
The best moments of Dragon
wyck" are those when the cameras
look in on the Connecticut farm
home of the Miranda Wells who be-
comes Nicholas second wife to her
considerable regret. These are en-
livened by fine portrait by Walter
Huston of a Godfearing farmer,
Evening star., 1946-05-10

enceS which will be swept off their
feet by her story. After all, what
can one expect of a ragged waif from
Houndsditch slums catapulted over
night into London's foppish nobility :?
Miss Rosamond Marshall, who
frankly admits she understands
SEX better than any other con-
temporary literary American, writes
a sort of woman's reply to Bernard
ShaW's "Pygmalion" in the picture
which stars Miss Goddard and Ray
Midland. Both of them, of course,
drew upon the Galatea legend for
their inspiration, but whereas Shaw
took a mental slant on it, Miss Mar
shall chose the biological. Shaw
wins hands down. His heroine, Eliza
Doolittle will be alive when Kitty
has become less than a pinch of dra-
matte dust. In the meantime, how
ever, Kitty is in for pretty inning
while Paramount caters to a cur
rent fashion in fctional females.
x X X
The producers have spared no
cost in bringing Kitty" to the screen
rs BELTS a girl who was such a
sensation in the bookstalls. AS the
earthly answer to Shaw's heroine,
Evening star., 1946-05-10

the studio has seen to it that her
Houndsdltch hovel is so squalid the
audience can virtually catch its
odors. The grand staircases which
she subsequently climbs to the pin
nacle of society are grander than
those of even Versailles.
The story that lies between the
first hovel and the last staircase. you
can be sure, is lively one. Director
Mitchell Leisen and his company of
players want you to know what a fig
ure slum beauty could cut in Lon
don society in those days. So they
keep your attention focused almost
entirely upon Miss Goddard's figure
and count on the tales stormy pace
to keep you from asking yourself
or them, any questions.
If you did not read kitty" or
Amber" or "Gilda," or one of those
boudoir diary-type tales which are
burning out the Nations printing
presses, it can be reported that Miss
Marshall wanted you to know she
was Acne. For crust of bread one
day, she tried to steal Artist Thomas
Gainsborough's gold-buckled shoes
This strange stick-up was a flop in
that she did not get the buckles, but
| she spiraled from that moment to
place where even the then Prince
of Wales ran royal fever over her.
1t was an agony for Kitty to pro-
duce a well-turned phrase of two
simple words, but a well-turned
pair of shoulders-not to be evasive
turned out to be more than bal
ancing social asset. They could take
Kitty anywhere she pleased. and she
pleased to 60 as far from Hounds
ditch as possible
First to realize Kitty's social pos
sibllities was the handsome, scoun-
drelly Sir Hugh Marcy. Sir Hugh,
as played by Ray Milland. is more
than a slight bounder. For good
reason, he has been kicked out of
the foreign office When he discov-
ers Kitty at Gainsborough's studio,
he's about to be tossed into debtors
prison. AS Miss Marshall's plot
twists, Kitty comes into Hugh's life
as a beautiful pawn he can play
into bankroll by mulcting London
males who can afford to be unlucky
at love.
In the course of making her a
lady, he marries her off to a sue
cessful iron manufacturer, and sub
sequently, by a brilliant stroke, to
the lecherous old Duke of NAL
munster.
One suppoSes, having been so re-
miss as not to have read Kitty"
that rushing her from marriage to
marriage is the result of conclud-
ing that the process of making her
lady is not SO dramatic and eX-
citing as was the education of
Shaw's Eliza in "Pygmalion. AS
Prof. Henry Higgins conducted his
courses in etiquette and paSsable
English in the latter play, the spec
tacle was one of high comedy in
which Eliza Jared quite we'll In
Kitty" the exhibition is more cruel
than comic, undoubtedly because
those involved are far less witty
than Shaw. If it is not that, they
probably will argue that the great
vegetarian playwright simply did
not know his Freud as well as the
Kitty" people.
/ There is no denying that in pass
ing up the subtleties, Kitty" be-
comes thing .jampacked with
Evening star., 1946-05-10

Joseph L. Mankiewicz, who both di-
rected the film and wrote the SCREEN
play, has produced what seems Ito a
memory no better than fair) to be
a reasonably literal translation of
the book. He also has produced
fine example of what happens when
a man goes out of his way to turn
out motion picture full of sinister
suspense. The camera always points
upward at Vincent Price, the more
evil and overpowering to make him
seem; always downward at Gene
Tierney, to make you feel like danger
Evening star., 1946-05-10

who thinks his daughter as daft as
she later discovers herself to be for
getting mixed up with Dutch
PATRON who demands tribute from
the farmers and will not sell them
their land. The rent riots, Incl
dentally, the uprisings which
brought an end to all Van Ryn
types, are touched upon only
sketchily in the film. Mr.. Huston
should have been leading those
Hudson River serfs. Things would
have been different then.
~ \ X y
The entertainment provided on
the Capitol stage is as light and
diversified as "DragonWyck" is
gloomy. Musically it reaches its
high point in the doings of George
Guest, nimble young man who
Evening star., 1946-05-10
New Burbituric Bill

Chairman Mcmillan of the House
District Committee yesterday intro
duced bill to ban the sale and use
OF barbituric sleep producing drugs
here except on prescription. 1t is a
companion measure to the one
passed recently by the Senate.
Evening star., 1946-05-10

plays boogie- -woogie on a marimba-
phone and does 1t with considerable
zest. Others contributing to the di-
version are the Mack Triplets. who
sing prettily and Gin a satire on
singing commercially wittily; Roy
Benson, who is offhandedly funny
enough about it to make his sleight-
of-hand session a happy one; Man.
uel Viera, who has a pair of comic
monkeys, and Ted Lawrie, who sings,
both robustly and romantically. All
very fine.
Evening star., 1946-05-10

A Treasury opinion poll reveals
that 81 per cent Of the Americans
who have been investing in War
Bonds on the payroll savings plan
want to continue buying United
States Savings Bonds that way.
They can.
Evening star., 1946-05-10
Kltty's' Fiery Romances Get
Lavish Setting at Palace
By Jay Cormody

Kitty the heroine of the picture which bears the
really bad girl She merely the sacrifca
GODDARD
at the Palace she beautiful mpuv
she also more than mite stupid in the
love but Paramount has hunch will
Evening star., 1946-05-10

Paulette Goddard and Ray Miiland, pro-
duced and directed by Mitchell Leisen:
screenplay by Darrel'~Ware and Karl Tun-
berg, from the novel by Rosamond Mar
shall. AT the Palace
THE CAST
Kitty Paulette Goddard
SIR Hugh Marcy -------- Ray Milland
Bret Harwood Patric Knowles
Duke of Malmunster Reginald Owen
Thomas Gainsboroueh Cecil KellaWay
Lady Susan Dewitt Constance Collier
Jonathan Selby Dennis Hoey
Old MEG ------.-- Sara Allgood
Dobson Eric Blore
Slr Joshua REYNOLDS Gordon Richards
H R H. the Prince of Wales Michael Dyne
Earl OF Compton ------ Edgar Norton
Elaine Carlisle Patricia Cameron
Doctor Holt ----------- Percival Vivian
nanny --------------- Mary Gordon
NulenS Anita Bolster
Evening star., 1946-05-10
'Dragonwyck,' at Capitol,
The Home of Gloomy Affairs

'DRAGoNWYcK,' a goth Century Fox
Daryl Zanuck, directed by Joseph L. Man
kiewicz; screenplay by Mankiewicz from
the novel by Anya Seton. At the Capitol
THE CAST
Evening star., 1946-05-10

KENNEDY Kennedy Mr.. 4ih NV.
~"""A01 RA. $500. Mot. PM.
Parking Space Available to Patrons.
MASSEN in TOKYO ROSE" At
80, $40. 4:5O, $50, $40, $50
Tomorrow--ALAN CURTIS, MARTHA
ODRISCOLL in 'DALTONS RIDE
Evening star., 1946-05-10
u0Mr 1890 c ST. NE.
IR. s1e6.

Last day-BUSTER CRABBE in
PRAIRIE RUSTLERS" At SIS, $40.
FAYE EMERSON. ZACHARY SCOTT
in DANGER SIGNAL" AT G:1O.
$40. Tomorrow-JIM BANNON in
OUT OF THE DEPTHS" BOB
STEELE in AMBUSH TRAIL"
Evening star., 1946-05-10
TODAY'S NEIGHBORHOOD MOVIES
heaters Having Matiness

All Time Schedules Given In Warner
Bros Ads Indicate Time Feature IL
Evening star., 1946-05-10
SAVOY

VnpV ca. Ave. & Quebec Pl. NV.
AVAsn RA. 4400
Today only-M HAZEL OSHEA.
TRUDY MARSHALL in "C1RCUM-
STANTIAL EVIDENCE" AT $50.
S35, 1915. Tomorrow D D E
DEAN. SARAH PADDEN in SONG
OF OLD WYOMING
Evening star., 1946-05-10

NE. 284l. Open, lo:45.
Last Day JANE FRAzEE in
u. 2:O5, sos, sis. GARY cooP.
ER. SIGRID GURIE in "ADVFN-
TURES OF MARCO POLO" (reissue}.
At l2:15: 3:15, 6:15, 9:25. Tomor-
WALKER in "SAILOR TAKES
WiEE ~. EDDIE DEAN in CARA
Evening star., 1946-10-19

(See PREFABS, Page B-3D
Evening star., 1946-10-19

The Inability of the house Is quite
evident from the plan The living
room is spacious and light. The ono
extravaganza is the large picture
windows, and even this may be SUBJ
stituted for by three small stand
ard sash for the present. The
kitchen is large. and all counters
and fixtures are arranged along one
side, so that the greater part of the
room can serve as a. dining area.
There are two bedrooms. One is a
double room, the other single.
Both are convenient to the bath
room, and both have ample closet
space.
The garage has been arranged for
under the same roof as the house
for pure economy in building, and
door leads into it from the kitchen.
The small utility room at the rear
of the garage can be used for several
purposes.
If a heating plant is desired, there
is room for it. If it is to be used
for storage space, it can be fitted
with shelves and racks. If it is to
be used for a workroom, it can be
(See WOOD, Page BAD
Evening star., 1946-10-19
Godgets
Vents Will Provide
For Air"CircuIotion
In GIuss-BIock Walls
By HiIson Munsey

Glass-block walls are being used
more and more in construction work
both in commercial buildings and the
private home, but one feature of
them has been overlooked, and that
is the question of ventilation. With
a solid-glass wall, proper provision
must be made for air circulation.
With this in view, a company
has developed special ventilators for
both the glass-block walls and win
dows. The construction of these
ventilators is simple and weather.
proof. They can be left open during
a rainStorm and will still continue
to yentilate without creating draft.
They can be adjusted to admit as
much or little air as is desired and
they require no painting or other
cost of upkeep. They are made of
cold-rolled steel bonderized and
finished in baked-on white enamel.
The glass inserts are of three-six-
teenths-inch glass equipped with
metal screens. They will fit any
standard size of glass block.
The supports are built into the
ventilator and therefore require no
angle irons. The unit is made SO
that it can be built directly into
the wall or window without any
fitting or alterations. The installa-
ton is very easy. nm.
When the wall. is being built it is
raised to the desired height and
the ventilator is set in a quarter of
an inch of mortar. The glass blocks
are then set around and over the
ventilator. These ventilators are
particularly useful when glass-block
construction is used in bathrooms
and kitchens.
The ventilators are made in five
different sizes. The first occupies
the space of three 8x8-inch glass
blocks, the next size is for four of
the same size blocks and the third
size for twice that number. If the
blocks are 6x6 inches, ventilator
to ocupy the space of eight of them
can be used The last size occupies
(See CADETS, Page B-8)
Evening star., 1946-10-19

Construction valued at $479, ATS,
including two educational buildings
to cost $4,000. were among IL nom
housing projects authorized this
week by the Civilian Production
Administration for the District area.
Edward M. Synan. CPA District
construction manager, said that
seven applications for construction
valued at $167.000 were denied.
This weeks approvals bring the
nonhousing total since March 90
to $19,793.118 in 472 projects, with
denials standing at 1913 valued at
SIS, ,504, ,465.
Projects Approved. :
Projects approved this week were
as follows:
Six projects valued at $131 ,05o, ap-
proved on the basis of rare and un-
usual hardship and with the use
of a minimum amount of critically
short materials:
Metropolitan Broadcasting Corp,
installation of heating system and
related work, 2627 Connecticut ave-
nue NV, $500.
Ruby G. Krucoff, remodeling of
Evening star., 1946-10-19
D. {. Building Permits
Tota|ing S871,142.
Issued Over Week

Building permits totaling $871,-
142 were granted during the last
week by Robert H. Davis, District
building inspections director-an in
crease of $417,265 over the week
before.
Largest was for $780, 900 annex to
the Columbia Medical Building.
Permits for construction to cost
an estimated $1,000 and over were
as follows:
Columbia Medical Building Corp,
Nineteenth and streets NV, own
er; Lee Paschall, Richmond, Va,
builder; Marcellus Wright & Sons,
Richmond. architect; to erect one
10-story concrete and brick medical
Offices building, 915 Nineteenth
street NV, to cost $500, 900.
. Arnold Construction Co., 2319
Fortieth place NV, owner and
builder; Berla g. Abel, architect; to
erect nine 2-story brick and cinder
block dwellings, 1537-59 Fort Dupont
street Sc, to cost $4,000.
Martin McInerney, Investment
Building, owner; Robert o. Scholz
Co., 1914 K street NV, builder; r.
o. Scholz, 1914 K street NV, archi-
tect; to erect one 1-story concrete
and tile showroom, service station,
1908 Good Hope road Sc, to cost
$4,000
George Washington University,
Twenty first and G streets NV,
owner, builder and architect; to
erect one 2-story masonry addition
to temporary laboratory. 2134 H
street NV, to cost $4,000.
Huffman Properties, 5429 Connect
cut avenue NV, owner and builder;
Johannes & Murray, Twenty-f1rst
and K streets NV, architect; to
erect one 3-story masonry apart
ment, ~ units, 1901 Fourth street
Sc, to cost $4,000.
Northeast Holy Trinity Church,
care of r. Vaughn, 506 T street
NV, architect; to erect one 1-story
and basement brick and cinder block
church, 709 Fourth street NE, to
cost $4,000.
Froe Properties, 701 Forty second
street NE, owner and builder; H. w.
Turner, $40 M street NV, architect;
to erect two 2-story brick dwellings,
4215-17 Grant street NE, to cost
$4,000.
The Hecht Co., Seventh and F
sons, jr., 224 Homer Building, build
er; Mcleod & Romborg Stone Co.,
architect; to face 3-story structure
with limestone, 603 E street NV, to
cost $4,000.
Wilbur L. and Helen E. Gray, 1920
New York avenue NV, owner; John
H. Miller. jr., & Bro, 1872 K street
NV, builder: Sam Miller, 1912 K
street NV, architect; to erect one
2-story brick dwelling, 4875 Potomac
avenue NV, to cost $8,448.
David r. Lehman, Twelfth and K
street NV, owner; Whitty Con-
struction Co., Inc, 1101 Vermont
avenue NV, builder: Leon Chate-
lain, jr., 1727 K street NV, archi-
tect; to erect one 1-story brick
storage building, 925 Twelfth street
NV, to cost $4,000.
H. A. Tucker. 1923 Twenty eighth
street Sc, owner; builder not
selected; Earl Won Reichenbach,
architect: to erect one 2-story Gin
der block and brick dwelling, 17l7
Thirty first street Sc, to cost
$4,000.
F. M. Mcneil, 1418 P street NV,
owner; M. Platshon, builder; John
P. Fitzsimmons, architect; to replace
wood roof with concrete, alterations,
auto garage, 1416 P street NV, toI
cost s., 900.
Evening star., 1946-10-19

(See CPA, Page B-2)
Evening star., 1946-10-19

Rent control in the District Is
handled by the District Rent Con-
troll Administration, an agency set
up separately by Congress and not
connected with OPA.
Four-Point Program.
Under a more stringent national
enforcement program covering con-
structicn of new homes for veter-
ans, $50 OPA rent offices through
out the country have been dele
gated to take charge Of:
/. Protecting veterans preference
rights.
2. Insuring that houses built un-
der the program conform substan-
TALLY with plans submitted by
builders when applying for priori-
ties
3. Insuring that prices are not
above ceiling.
4. Requiring that builders post
placards on each house under con-
struction.
I. Chance Buchanan, OPA rent
director of the Alexandria -Arling-
ton defense rental area Office, 1924
North Highland street, said his
staff would take charge of the pro-
gram in Arlington, Fairfax and
Prince William counties, Alexandria
city and the District.
At present his staff includes, be-
sides himself, an attorney, two in
spectors and five clerical employees
for all rent control activity. To
take care of the additional work,
more employees will be needed, he
said. His Office now is prepared to
answer inquiries regarding enforce
ment. he explained, although fur
ther time will be needed for the en-
tire program to get under way.
Taylor in Maryland Post.
In charge of the program for
Montgomery, Prince Georges, st.
Marys, Calvert and Charles Coun-
ties, in Maryland, will be Frank E.
Taylor, OPA rent director for the
Montgomery Prince Georges Defense
Rental Area Office, 1854 Colesville
road, Silver Spring, Md.
The OPA compliance program is
being undertaken to supplement the
present National Housing Agency
Civilian Production Administration
enforcement activity covering priori-
ties and materials, and is designed.
(See LEWIS, Page B-6.)
Evening star., 1946-10-19
VA Retuins Architects
For S7,OOO,OOO Hospital

Faulkner, Kingsbury g. Stem
house, architects at GIT Fifteenth
street INV, have been retained by
the Government to design 500-bed,
S7,OO0,OOO New Orleans veterans
hospital in association with Favrot
& Reed of New Orleans, the Wash
ington firm disclosed today.
The local architects designed the
400-bed George Washington Uni
versity, Hospital, now under con-
struction at Washington Circle.
Evening star., 1946-10-19
The Week S
Housing Picture

Applications for rental housing
totaled 1,l99 during the last week at
the District Housing Center, OF
which all but 1913 were from service
men or veterans.
Listed for rent were 154 apart
ments and houses and 400 rooms.
Construction of 81 new dwellings
was approved during the week by
the Federal Housing Administra-
tion's local Office, of which 1873 per
cent were TO sell for less than $500
or rent for less than $50. Sixteen
conversion units also were approved.
Total approvals since January Is
stand at 19,485 units, 25.6 to cost less
than $500, plus 1879 conversion
units.
Nationally, 778,369 units have been
approved for construction, of which
(See HOUSING, Page B-5)