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Willa Cather Novel Loses
Much in the Screen Story
"A Lost Lady' Has Not Been Well Treated by
the Producers—Fred Waring on Earle Stage.
' Great Expectations" at Keith s.
BY E. de S. MELCHER.
ALTHOUGH you'll find mention made at the Earle this Week
that the feature film is based on Willa Cather's novel, "A
Lost Lady,'' the resemblance to the original remains very
much of a secret.
In this picture Barbara Stanwyck has a 10-round bout with
love, fate, passion and "honesty"—a bout which grows sadder and
sadder and sadder and ends up with what is probably meant to
be a happy ending. In the meantime, however, she has loved
not only wisely but foolishly, has had a boy friend snatched from
her the day before he was to become her husband, has married
herself to Frank Morgan, has flirted with Lyle Talbot, been made
love to by Ricardo Cortez, and finally gets around to realizing
that &»rhaps Frank Morgan is the best of the lot.
Wita »<ι due regara to miss Stan
wyck's occasional ability we have to
admit that she's pretty bad in this—
rind that the film is pretty bad, too.
The New Deal given Miss Cather is,
in plain language, a washout.
* * * *
l^RED WARING and his band make
up for ".Lost Lady's" failings—
in fact, we'd take "Poley" McClin
tock any day as an entertainer in
place of Miss Stanwyck. Mr. Mc
Clintock is that epic basso-profoundo
whose vocal tonsils sound as though
they were underground. Every time
he opens his mouth a small thunder
cloud escapes from it, and he and
the audience are never so happy as
when he is cackling away while he
assaults that drum at the same time.
Mr. McClintock and Mr. Waring are
always welcome visitors to these
shores, and we have a sneaking sus
picion that this year they are better
then ever before. Mr. Waring's ar
rangement of "Smoke Gets in Your
Eyes" is "tops," and there isn't a dull
moment» from first to last on his pro
pram. Newcomers include the Lane
Sisters, two grand looking young
ladies, whose singing is only one of
their obvious assets.
♦ * * *
THICKENS' most recent gift to Holly
wood. "Great Expectations." is at
R-K-O Keith's this week. He gets
about a 50-50 break in it, the first
scenes being handled with skill and
restraint and the last with fair fidel
ity. but also with something that ap
proaches dullness. In spite of the
acting of that excellent Broadway
actor, Henry Hull, who was brought
to Hollywood for that role, the last
half of this film seems less cheering
than the author intended, and you
will probably find it inconvenient to
go back over the story again the way
Mr. Hull and, of course, Mr. Dickens
intended you to do.
The first scenes are, however, very
nice—due to that elegant young
trouper, George Breakstone, and to
Florence Reed, who manages to stamp
around in that wedding dress in the
spider-web room without being alto
gether foolish. Young Breakstone and
later Mr. Hull steal the show cold
from such Hollywood veterans as
Phillips Holmes. (There is something
disappointing even in the attractive
Jane Wyatt.)
And so, in spite of the fact that
Hardie Meakin and the local school
board are all steamed up about this
latest Dickens scenario, we can't
honestly say that we are steamed up,
too. The characters are, for the most,
part able duplicates of the original—
but—the book still remains better
entertainment.
* * * *
POOR William Makepeace Thack
eray got a tough break in these
columns yesterday! His ghost
woke us up in the middle of the night
and. sitting very gently on the edge of
our bed, reminded us that he was the
author of "Vanity Pair"—not Charlie
Dickens!
Troupers
Glimpses of Stage Folk
in Washington.
About two minutes after we had
slipped into an orchestra chair at the
National the other night, the lady on
our left said wistfully, "I wish he
could sing and dance a little."
She was watching George M. Cohan, ι
conceded to be America's first actor, !
tussle amiably and expertly with the j
role of a small town parent in Eugene
O'Neill's "Ah, Wilderness." The per- [
formance seemed to please her well ;
enough, but still, Mr. O'Neill just J
might have remembered to work in a
little clog and tune for Mr. Cohan!
While the lady's reluctance to let !
Mr. Cohan forget his songs and dances
and merely go oil
being the best of
modern actors
may appear
slightly odd, it is
shared in some
degree by Mr.
Cohan himself.
He gained his
first prominence
in show business
by hoofing and
plugging songs
according to the
lights of his dis
tinctly original
mind. For years
after he gradu
ated from the hoofer class he always
Injected into his own plays an inter
lude wherein he twirled through a few
steps, sang a bit. The audience ate
It up, perhaps sensing a certain hu
mility in this preferred reminder of
the star's humble beginnings.
The origins and early history of
George M. Cohan, however, are small
beer in comparison to the Importance i
of his later theatrical career. He has J
written some of the most unique plays
ever devised by the hand of man, and
played in all of them himself. Some
people consider his "Tavern" one of >
the funniest comedies penned in !
America, but it was based on a deadly j
serious melodrama of the type that j
used to stir the prim hearts of ladies j
and gentlemen in the 90s and early ■
1900s. He merely exaggerated at the j
right spots, and added a mysterious |
stranger who roams through the story ;
confounding every one and managing ,
to seem highly significant, of what !
no one knows.
The role of the mysterious stranger j
obviously is the Cohan favorite, when
he Xnvents his own dramas.
He is never very clearly explained
In "Gambling," wherein he appears
once more as a man quaintly unfettered
by the customary motives and at
titudes of people living in society. His
greatest record for exposition of the
stranger in our midst was established
in the recent ' Pigeons and People," in
which he remained on the stage for
approximately two hours and a half,
delivering himself of witticisms,
epigrams and relevant commentary on
human conduct.
As you probably know. Mr. Cohan
Js also a song writer, the most en
ergetically patriotic in the business. His
ditties are dignified by the fact that
he wrote them, but some who have not
proper respect for the crown of the
thespian hero insist they are very sad
stuff. No one ever has had the nerve
to say that about his acting.
R. B. P., jr.
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ROOSEVELT'S KIN URGES
FEDERAL RELIEF LEVY
Cousin of President Declares Bur
den Can No Long-er Be Taken
From Profit.
By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO. November 17.—Nicholas
Roosevelt, former Minister to Hungary,
yesterday advocated a Federal sales
tax as a solution of the problem of
maintaining unemployment relief.
Roosevelt, a Republican and a cousin
t^iitTsiflent Franklin D. Roosevelt,
spoke before the Executives' Club.
"Until the administration at Wash
ington settles the relief problem, we
*111 continue to have uncertainty," he
said. "We cannot go on paying for
relief out of profits, it must come out
of Income. A Federal sales tax would
do the job. Label it a relief tax and
put all relief on a pey-aa-you-go
basis."
Roosevelt, who served under the
Hoover administration as vice gov
ernor of the Philippines, told his audi
ence that the greatest danger ahead
is the spending program of the next
Congress.
RACE TRACK
TOUT A1SD THE
USUAL BABY
Sereen Story \tust Hove
Youngster, so Runyon
Tale Holds to Form.
In one of those famous meetings of
the Hollywood intelligentsia, commonly
known as story conferences, it obvi
ously was decided several months ago
that no man in a film yarn could be
a race track tout, a convict, a fruit
peddler or the King of Egomania with
out having a small, bright child the
enobling influence in his life. Conse
quently Damon Runyon's excellent
story of "The Lemon Drop Kid," on
the screen this week at the Metropoli
tan, has Baby Le Roy tacked on to it
for the purpose of ripping your heart
loose from its moorings.
Since children have become as com
monplace in the cinema as around the
house, you need not necessarily pay a
vast amount of attention to their an
tics. It is your privilege to go right
on enjoying or sorrowing over the his
tories of sundry adults, and "The
Lemon Drop Kid" will supply you with
one of the better sagas of their strange
ways.
The tale about the city slicker who
found his soul in small-town domes
ticity, as opposed to the ribald cus
toms of the metropolis, is not pre
cisely a new one, but in the hands of
Mr. Runyon, Lee Tracy and the able
troupe of Thespians who aid and abet
them, this particular version will serve
until another magazine Shakespeare
comes along.
If you missed the printed record of
the activities of the young man who
hung around tracks, telling the tale
on improbable winners to suckers
willing to pay cash for misinforma
tion, be advised that the "Lemon Drop
Kid" was one of that lowly breed.
Gifted with a sense of humor and a
penchant for popping lemon drops
into his mouth without the slightest
provocation, the kid once persuaded a
rheumatic old skinflint to bet $100—
"a century" in the language of the
people—on a horse. Any horse. Take
No. 2, for instance. When No. 2 won
and the wheelchair orge discovered he
had been flimflammed, the kid had to
leave in a great hurry, closely fol
lowed by two policemen. He won.
Or, rather, he lost, for he landed
in a nearbv villacp fpll in lnuo ·πτ*Ητ
the local drunkard's daughter, went
to work In a country store and mar
ried her. When their first child was
born, she died.
He had been warned in advance
that she should have the care of spe
cialists. Wher. his tight-fisted boss—
he seemed to have a knack for getting
mixed up with gentlemen who had a
strangle-hold on their dollars—re
fused to loan him money to take her
to the city before the birth of his
child, he held up the store, got the
cash—and found he was too late. He
was convicted of the robbery, went to
prison a bitter man and a hard cus
tomer to handle.
Then the warden led in the "Lemon
Drop Kid, jr."; the paternal effect
worked like magic, and there you are.
As simple as that tale may sound, the
dynamic Mr. Tracy, dialogue by Mr.
Runyon and J. Ρ McEvoy and the
efforts of Henry B. Walthall, Helen
Mack, William Frawley and assorted
others supply a competent builder
upper. The sum is good fireside film
food.
There are also two musical shorts,
an elaborate newsreel sequence and a
splendid Betty Boop cartoon on the
Met schedule. R. B. P., Jr.
QUARTET HERE TUESDAY.
Grace Moore, star of the recent
screen success, "One Night of Love,"
who recently left the tour of the Met
ropolitan Quartet in Omaha and came
East for rest and medical attention
at New York, rejoined the other quar
tet members, Edward Johnson, tenor;
Richard Bonelli. baritone, and Rose
Bampton, contralto, all of the Metro
politan Opera, at Montreal last night
and was tumultuously received by a
large audience, according to word that
reaches Mrs. Dorothy Hodgkin Dorsey.
who will present the quartet at Con
stitution Hall next Tuesday afternoon,
November 20. at 4:40 o'clock.
The Metropolitan Quartet is the
first organization of its kind to make
a tour of the country since Aida, Laz
zari, Martinelli and De Luca made a
tour some efght years ago. They will
sing a program of operatic solos, duets,
trios and quartets.
Couple in the Public's Eye
Greta Garbo and George Brent are seeing a good deal of each other
these days, according to reports from Hollywood, and have been excellent
friends since they appeared together in 'The Painted Veil." This newest
Garbo picture comes to the Palace next Friday.
"President Vanishes"
Is New in Movie Plots
Clever and Fast-Moving Comedy Drama of
Politically-Minded U. S. Delights
Pre-View Audience.
BY MOLLIE MKRRICK.
HOLLYWOOD, Calif., November 17 < N.A.N .A. ).—Walter Wan
ger's first film, "The President Vanishes," is soon to be
released. If theatergoers throughout the country get as
excited about it as Hollywood pre-view audiences did (.and
I don't see how they can help it), it's an assured success. '
Here s a· picture inai reiuies tne
old idea that there aren't any new
stories. This film is certainly not
"plot number 6" dressed up in new
costumes. Nor has it anything re- j
motely to do with the "eternal tri-1
angle" situation.
"The President Vanishes" is really
a cleverly prepared picture of the
present-day situation and what might
happen to America should its citizens
become too engrossed with political
issues.
Lest this should sound like a dull
story, let me assure you that it is a
swift-moving film, well directed by
William Wellman, with a perfect cast.
It was previewed at a local theater
adjoining one of our universities, and
you probably realize that an audience
of college kids isn't going in for bor
ing pictures or any story that is overly
sentimental, and when I tell you that
these "future bonds salesmen" clapped,
cheered and even hissed, as th£ drama
unfolded, you should know how thrill
ing the plot becomes.
I Arthur Byron, as the President;
Janet Beecher, as his wife; Charley
Grapewin, as a capitalist; Osgood Per
kins, as a secret service man. and Ed
win Arnold, Secretary of War, were
excellent in their parts.
But it remained for Andy Devine,
as the hero-worshiping grocery boy,
and Paul Kelly, as a secret service
man, to win the spontaneous applause
that their clever acting deserved.
Which reminds us that Irene
Franklin did a bit as Andy Devine's
mother that was perfect.
One of the big arguments going on I
at Paramount these days is whether 1
I
film sets shall be made in colors or all
black and white.
Josef Von Sternberg announces that 1
only black and white will be used on j
his sets in the future. He does make
allowance for gray when he says this,
as gray is one of the graduations
blending btack to white.
Von Sternberg thinks that It Is pos
sible to get a more artistic and real
istic result in films by using the black
and white medium, and had all sets
designed accordingly for Marlene
Dietrich's new picture, "Caprice Es
pagnole."
Wesley Ruggles is a director who
disagrees absolutely with this idea.
"While the camera records only
black and white values.' Ruggles
says, "I feel that the use of color in a
setting gives the actor a feeling ot
reality that helps him get into the
spirit of his characterizations.
"In my present picture, I have a
very colorful night club scene. If I
had the set painted only in black and j
white, I feel there would have been a
resultant letdown of unreality for the
cast.
"By using brilliant reds and golds
and other hues used in a night club,
the atmosphere becomes charged with
gayety and liveliness and I find that
it is reflected in the performance of
the ectors who are trying to make
their parts alive."
Von Sternberg still insists, however,
that unless a production is to be made '
in technicolor, it is better designed in
straight black and white.
While we don't take sides, we can't
help observing that Josef Von Stern
berg is a great artist with the camera.
(Copyright. 1934. by the North American
Newspaper Alliance. Inc.)
AFFAIR OF HOLLYWOOD
NIGHTS FALLS SHORT
Picture Starring James Dunn and
Alice Faye Is Mass of
Small Parts.
"365 Nights in Hollywood," now at
the Columbia, might have been a very
good picture, but it fell short some
where. It might have been turned
into a cogent expose of the fake dra
matic school racket, it might have
been a fine gay love story, or it might
have been an extravagant musical,
but it is none of those things and
small parts of all of them.
Mostly "365 Nights in Hollywood"
is much as if a two-reel comedy had
been stretched out to feature length.
It is the story of a famous director
who fails, takes a job with the fake
school of acting, meets the girl, makes
a picture and comes back. Follows
formula 37-a. This will not be the
story they use when they make the
great American motion picture. Its
only lease on life is that it offers some
excuse, no matter how little, for James
Dunn's fine acting and Alice Faye's
gorgeous vocal efforts, and is not so
closely knit that it is marred very
much when Mitchell and Durent
break in with their antics of mayhem.
Mr. Dunn seems to have completely
ignored the fact that the picture in
which he was playing was nothing to
shout about, for his performance as
the director would do credit to most
any film. < It is an authentic job, done
with the proper vitality. Beauteous
Miss Faye's only claim to fame in this
is her way of singing songs, which
truly is the correct way to sing songs.
Mitchell and Durant %re great in a
skit where they portray two wrestlers
meeting on the street, good in some of
their bits, and merely interrupt what
ever suspense there is in others. John
Bradford is a "natural" as the villain.
"365 Nights in Hollywood" has more
than a few spots of entertainment, but
they are widely separated, and if you
can stand over an hour of a piece
which deserves two reels, it is even
conceivable that you might like it all
the way through. The film is sup
posedly taken from a collection of
stories by Jimmy Starr, but if the
Hollywood columnist was responsible
for any more than the title, he should
not brag about it. H. M.
Woman Killed, Husband Hurt.
TAMPA. Fla., November 17 (Λ").—
Mrs. Marion M. Miller of Longton,
Kans., was killed and her husband
escaped injury as their automobile and
a truck were in collision yesterday at
a highway intersection near Plant
City.
MRS. WIGGS
BACK AGAIN
AS CINEMA
!
I
Story, Once Best-Seller,\
Is Wholesome, Home
spun Screen Play.
As a simple story well told, "Mrs.
Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch" reaches
hitherto unattempted heights for films
with simplicity and unpretentiousness
as their keynote. While undistin
guished, the new Palace cinema yet
manages to project such a wholesome
type of homespun entertainment as
would warm the heart of the most
hardened playgoer.
In depicting the poverty-stricken
yet happy family of the simple Mrs.
Wiggs and her geography-named off
spring, Hollywopd forgot for once its
mania for ornamentation and luxuri
ousness, stuck to the little things and
produced a moving drama with hardly
more than one set and an extra ward
robe.
Coming right in the midst of the
Community Chest drive, next door to
Thanksgiving and right around the
corner from Christmas "Mrs. Wiggs"
is thrice welcome as entertainment
and as a forceful reminder of other
similar families having as hard a time
of it today as she did in 1900.
With natural and simple grace,
Pauline Lord makes Mrs. Wiggs one
of the outstanding film characters of
the year. Her sly and modest man
nerisms will have you both laughing
and sad as the sincere tale unfolds
while she somehow succeeds in hold
ing her little family together and
helping others at the same time.
In case you've forgotten, the Cab
bage Patch is the slum section of a
small Ohio town, in which the Wiggs
and several other unfortunates, in
cluding Miss Hazy (Zasu Pitts), live
In homemade houses. A pair of young
rich folk of the town—Evelyn Venable
and Kent Taylor—help the Wiggs
through most of their difficulties, and
W. C. Fields, who can get more
laughs out of becoming tangled in a
wire fence than a dentist can from his
gas, adds to the general fun by get
ting engaged to Miss Hazy by means
of a matrimonial catalogue.
The three little girls, Asia, Europena
and Australia; Jim. the sick son; old
Mr. Wiggs, who mostly thinks, and
even Cuby. the horse, are all part and
parcel of the piece.
The added features include a trav
elogue. Edwin C. Hill newsrccl and
[ comedy. M. W. B.
Loy-Powell Team Starred j
In New Picture at the Foxj
Less Diverting Than "The Thin Man/' the Film :
Is Made Interesting by the Players.
A Well-Rounded Stage Show.
WILLIAM POWELL and
Myrna Loy, that urbane
pair who gave matrimony
a new film rating by their
charming performances in
"The Thin Man," have been cast
again as husband and wife- in the
picture "Evelyn Prentice," the cur
rent attraction at Loews Pox. While
they remain the mast civilized of
married couples in or out of flickers,
the team has this time been mounted
on a less divering vehicle, a trap that
never gets very far because it tries
to be all things u.,to all plots.
Three of the most popular pres
ent-day Hollywood yarns have been
jammed together in "Evelyn Pren
tice," and, unhappily, they fit to
gether like the pieces of a baggy
trou comedian's new suit. First of
all, there is the cute infant, the pro
geny of Mr. and Mrs. John Prentice,
who tugs at everybody's heart with
her winsome ways, and holds together
her parents when they are tempted
to stray into alien romance. Then
there is the sinister note, the at
tempted blackmail of innocent Mrs.
Prentice, the mystery shooting. For
good measure, the cinema people have
tossed in that modern favorite, a big
court room scene, which because of
Miss Isabell Jewell and a clever plot
twist turns out to be by far the most
effective of the mismatched trio.
The aforesaid harsh words art more
of an indictment of the producers of
"Evelyn Prentice" than those who are
mixed up in it. For their part, they
troup quite gallantly through it all,
remaining on the whole more attrac
tive to behold than many of their
contemporaries performing in the nar
rative masterpiece of the ccntury. If
you never tire of watching the hand
some Miss Loy and smooth Mr. Pow
ell at work, and few people do, it may
not make you squirm to see them
swamped with so many fruitless com
plications. emoting heavily rather
than playing handball with sucn
frothy banter as the Hollywood wits
can invent.
Because he was a busy man, Attor
ney John Prentice was partially di
vorced from the modernistic house
hold in which dwelt a beauteous wife
and a precocious daughter. He drifted
into a mild flirtation without the mat
rimonial gates, and his wife, irked ay
rumors of his wanderings, found mea
ger consolation in the attentions of a
very minor poet. Between peccadillos
both of them come home to pay pen
ance with sentimental moments in the
nursery, but unfortunately Evelyn
Prentice forgot that excellent maxim
"Do and say uhat you please, but
don't never writ a letter."
When everything was about to be set
aright at the Prentice hearth, she
Sought to recover her letters from her
wayward songbird, who promptly tried
'his hand at blackmail. She threatened
him with his own pistol. Thereupon
the bard handed over the notes and
hit her on the jaw. The gun went off.
She fled from his apartment. At that i
moment another Nell, by whom the
young man had done everything but j
right, arrived. She was found stand- j
ing over his lifeless body, holding his
gun in her hand.
This forsaken blond, Judith Wil
son, by name, was tried for the mur- 1
der of Lawrence Kennard, and she !
was by way of being convicted de
spite the legal ministrations of Mr.
Prentice himself, when the noble
Evelyn stepped forth and confessed
in the court room. Thereafter the
predicament of all concerned dis
solved itself quite ingeniously, in a
manner it will be worth your while
■ to discover. ι
It should not be forgotten that Miss
Una Merkel is among those present
and well accounted for in the cast of
this film, while Miss Isabell Jewell,
at times treated brutally by the
camera, hits an enviable peak of line
reading in the court room scene.
The Pox stage show this week is a
horse of another color. A gay, di
verse and well-rounded affair, it runs
the gamut of amusement from A at
least through W, offering half an
alphabet of the always clever Dun
can Si?terns. One of the best-known
teems in all show business, the ladies
Duncan have not been content to
coast along on earned increment, in
stead refreshing their act from the
better Broadway sources and their |
own fertile imaginations. They still ί
play at Topsy and Eva, but they keep !
the game up-to-date. You will en
joy them.
The Three Diamond boys are an
other name act still going strong.
When better and funnier ways to tear
limb from limb are invented, they
probably will discover them. Also
recommended to your attention are
the melodies sung by Charles Fogartv.
a tenor from the West, and the young
people who dance very well in the j
program opener.
The Phil Lampkin overture and the
usual news reel complete the bill.
R. B. P., Jr.
OUTSTANDING PLAYERS ,
IN'THE FORTY THIEVES'
Lisa Gardiner Dancers in Splen
did Performance, While Ama
teurs Do Very Well.
Even though his was a compara
tively small part, Theodore Freter was
the outstanding performer last night
at Central High School, where the
Washington Community Players pre
sented an arrangement of "Ali Baba
inti the Forty Thieves," by Bess Davis
Schreiner. His was the part of Mus
tafa. a cobbler, who helped bury the
body of Kasim Baba after Ali Baba
had brought his brother's dismem
bered body from the robbers' cave,
and who unknowingly helped the rob
bers find the house of Ali Baba when
they returned for vengeance. He
placed the palsied old cobbler to per
fection, quaking, shivering and creep
ing along as though each step would
be his last.
Lisa Gardiner and her dancers
added an air of Oriental rhythm and
color to this cleverly arranged pro
duction. They were especially effec
tive in the finale, where their gay
costumes and mystic dancing won the
hearts of their audience. Miss Gard
iner did well in one of the leading
roles, that of Morgiana, a slave girl
in love with Ali Baba.
John Sikken as Ali Baba, the poor
wood-gatherer, also turned out a good
performance. His elation at discover
ing the hidden stores of the thieves,
the horror with which he discovered
his brother's mutilated body, and espe
cially his dancing in the last act, left
nothing to be desired.
Another actor worthy of mention is
Jesse Veitch. He played a convincing
role as robber captain. Such a deep
dyed villain and heartless murderer as
he portrayed, well deserved the fate
which finally overcame him.
Edith H. Hunter is to be compli
mented for her excellent piano accom
paniment. For the extremely realistic
settings, both in the forest and court
yard scenes, credit goes to Robert
Wick, who devised them.
The Washington Community Players
will present "Ali Baba and the Forty
Thieves" again this afternoon at 2:30,
and tonight at 8:15, in the Central
High School auditorium. G. Ε. H.
BAND CONCERT.
By the United States Soldiers' Home
Band Orchestra this evening in Stan
ley Hall at 5:30 o'clock. John S. M.
Zimmermann, bandmaster; Anton
Pointner, associate leader.
March, "The Irish King" Pryor
Overture, "The Hand of Fellowship."
Bigge
Entr'acte, "By the Waters of
Minnetonka" Lieurance
"Whippoorwill" (intermezzo). .Kay
Excerpts from musical comedy "This
Year of Grace" Coward
Oriental, "Visions d'Arabe" Fosse
Valse intermezzo, "Pathetique".Baron
Finale, "The Joker" Lake
"The Star Spangled Banner."
Where and When
Current Theater Attraetions
and Time of Showing.
National—"Ah, Wilderness," at 2:20
and 8:20 p.m.
Earle—"A Lost Lady," at 11 a.m.,
1:10, 3:20, 5:30, 7:55 and 10:05 p.m.
Stage shows at 12:20, 2:30, 4:40, 7.05
and 9:15 p.m.
Loejr'g Fox—"Evelyn Prentice," at
11 a.m., 1:40, 4:20, 7:10 and 10 p.m.
Stage shows at 12:35, 3:15, 6:05 and
8:55 p.m.
R-K-O Keith's — "Great Expecta
tions," at 11:33 a.m., 1:33, 3:33, 5:33,
7:33 and 9:33 p.m.
Palace—"Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage
Patch," et 11:15 a.m., 1:20, 3:25, 5:30,
7:35 and 9:40 p.m.
Metropolitan — "The Lemon Drop
Kid," at 11:10 a.m., 1:15, 3:20, 5:30
1:35 and 9:45 p.m.
Columbia — "365 Nights in Holly
wood," at 12:10, 2:10, 4:05, 6, 8 and
9:55 p.m.
Tivoli—"Six-Day Bike Rider." at
2:15, 4:20, 6:20, 8:05 and 9:50 p.m.
Ambassador—"Have a Heart," at 2,
4:05, 6, 7:45 and 9:35 p.m.
Local Player
JULIAN ZIER.
Who has one of the leading roles
in the Blackfriars Guild production
of "The Passing of the Third
Floor Back," which will be present
ed at St. Paul's Auditorium. Fif
teenth and V streets northwest,
next Monday and Tuesday nights.
Large Rail Tax Bill.
The tax bill of the railroads of the
United States for 1933 amounted to
$250,000,000. or $685,000 a day—
around $1,000 a mile.
OPENING
HOLLYWOOD INN
Saturday Night—November l"th
Under New Management
CHOICE WINES AND BEER
SPECIAL PLATE LUNCHES
NO COVER CHARGE
Featuring Earl Better» Jazz
Orchettra
Drive out Marlboro Pike to Meadows, j
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Hall to Rent for Frlrale ïirllfi
PYUS ADAMS
MARVELITE
No Better Pent Sold
Get Our Special Quantity Prices.
Great Caulking Compound. l'Î.OO Gallon
HA- HWI UJH Hth St. VW.
LANK
OOKS
We have them ... a frfat stock
at Popular Price*
E. Morrison Paper Co.
1009 Pa. Ave. Phone NA. 2945
COAL
2,240 Poundi to the Ton
Blue Ridge Va. Hard
Stove Coal, $12.00
Special Furnace Sise. 110.50
Nut. S11.75 Pea. S9.00 Etc. $ 11 75
Blue Ridge Rice, $6.25
Buckwheat, $7.25
Smokeless Egg, $9.75
Bituminous Coal Without Smoke or
Soot 80% Lump. S8.75
Blue Egg, $8.50
Herd-Structure Pa Bituminous
Makes Only Thin White Smoke
75% Lump Coal, $7.SO
Lump delivered in separate compart
ment from the fine—showing yon get
correct amount of lamp.
Prices May Advance Soon
Better Order Now
Coal carried from truck to your
coal bin; we do not dump It on curb.
Guarantee: If you are not pleased
with our coal after burning It 48
hours, we will take it back and refund
your money
Over 20.000 New Customers In 3 ¥rs.
in Baltimore and Washington.
There It a Reaton Why
World's Largest Retailers of Vs.
Anthracite
BLUE RIDGE COAL CO.
Miners of Virginia Anthracite Hard Coal
Alexandria Rd. So. Washington Va
Me. Opposite Texaco Oil Wal.
4401 Distributing Plant 8475
CHICKENS IN WRECK
CHICAGO, November 17 OF).— In
a blizzard of feathers, scrambled eggs
•nd squawking chickens, a poultry
truck driven by Francis Maloney, 22,
of Manchester, Iowa, crashed into a
safety island yesterday. Pedestrians
rounded up the runaway fowl and
police arrested Maloney on a reckless
driving charge.
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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
£. S. Coolidge Foundation
Saturday, November 24
at 3:.*10 p.m.
The Rev. Dom Anselm Hughes
will lecture on
The Music of King Henry VI
Tifkrts it T. Arthur Smith. 1.TI0 G
St. N.W.. beginning Monday. Nov. If».
Service charge for each tirket. rent*.
WHERE TO DINE.
NOBILE CAFE
Washington's Famous Amrriran-Italian
Restaurant
Dine Drink Dance
Orchestra 9 to 1
518 10th St. N.W. 17*
Tenderloin
Steak
$1.00
Other Dinner·
65c. 75c
THE HAY LOFT IS AVAILABLE
for bridoe. luvcr.com avd driver parlies
Iron Gate Inn
Rear 17.T1 Ν St. N.W.
Formerly the Stable of Gen. Miles
GOOSE CREEK TAVERN
30 miles west of Washington,
on Route No. ».
Dine. Dance and Enjoy the Best. IS·
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Louie's
LIDO
Italian-American Rsetaurant
1208 18th St. N.W.
At Conn. Ave.
The Home of the Italian
Dinner, Wine Included
75c, η
.00
FRrSH DAILY RAVIOLI
SELECT SIRLOIN STEAK
Home Cooking a la Carte
Wines and Drinks of All Kinds
r. Phone Sterling 95ΛΟ r
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MRS. k s
Toll House Tavern
COLESVILI.E PIKE
SILVER SPRING. MARYLAND
Τ omorrow—Sunday
Mrs. K's
S-P-E-C-I-A-L
T-U-R-K-E-Y
D-I-N-N-E-R
Phone SHepherd 3500
Open All Year Every Day
Wt
KINGS
2938 14th St. N.W.
NR. COLUMBIA RD.
CHINESE OR
AMERICAN
IlhMFS
50c
OTHER DINNERS. «Or. Me. Me
FRESH VEGETABLES
Served 4:30 P.M. to JO P.M.
SUNDAY DINNERS
65c, 75c
Senti II A.M. to 10
Pit
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AMUSEMENTS.
NATIONAL
Tonitc
8:10 Sharp
Mthlv K/tc ta 7Λ s
Mat. H.tr to t'i.'îO
Mat. Todav 3:10 Sharp.
Scats for All Performances
The Theater Guild Presents
'Ah, Wilderness'
Euoent O'Nriir» Com til t
With Geo. M. Cohan
Niit Week leg. Mon Stats Selling
Walter Hampden
Mon., Fr!.. Wat. eve*.. I:M. Wed.
Mat., 2:30. Hirhrlieu; Tue·.. Thiira.,
t Richard III: l\ e<1. at *. Ham
let; gat. Mat., 2:15. Macbeth. Sent
«al· J hum. Kve·.. XV to $2.75;
Matinee·, 53c to SZ.Z9.
5Ssi KEiTH»s;;":'G
Charles Dicker»'»
"Great Expectations"
Its vivid paqei com· to throbbing
life on tht tcraan!
HENRY HULL
PHILLIPS HOLMES
JANE WVATT
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TOMORROW AFT'K, 4 P. M.
"The Inimitable Centrait·''
OH
Constitution Hall, T»m»«rrnw, 4 pm.
Ticket*: ZZe. SI.10. $1 6j. 52 20.
Mrs. Dorsry'%. Droog f?QO G Ν a 7I ' t
Cen.titut.en Hall, Next Tuer. . Nov jn. 4 40
Metropolitan Quartet
With the S*ar ef "Or* Ν nht of few*
GRACE MG3P.E
Rjch'd COHELLI-Ed. JOHNSON
ROSS BAMP70H
Tirln's $1.11», SI.*5. S? S2.T" $110.
Mrs. Prr ·>*«, Π"0 Γ f; \ 71* f
Warner Τ«·λΙϊ an!'
Bros. IIV OU Park Bd. X.H.
Matinee Daily. 2 P.M.
Tomorrow, Mon.. Tues.. \Ve«î.
GRACE MOORE
In the Columbia Hit
"ONE NIGHT
OF LOVE"
GAYETY BURLESK
Startini Tomorrow
Tht Three Heart Wreckers.
JOY ST. CLAIRE
JEAN BODINE
DOT AHEARN
ACADEMY 7,Ts'ï"""""
Ε. Lawrence Phillips' Theatre Beautiful
RICARX) CORTEZ.
• HAT. COAT AND GLOVE."
BUCK JONES
•ROCKY RHODES"
Serial.
ACUTAM CLARENDON. VA.
/oniuil LITTLE DAVID HOLi. LFE
TRACY. YOU BEI ONG TO ME
CAROLINA WALLACE* BÊEKY arfd
JACKIE COOPER. TREASURE ISLAND *
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LlrvLLL Mat Tues . Thurs.. Sat.. Sua.
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CHARLIE CHAN IN LONDON." Com.
DUMBARTON RIChAR d'b A RT HE*" -
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ED LOWRY in "THE HOUSE ΟΓ MYS
| TERY. ' RANDOLPH SCOTT in "WILD
HOKSE MESA "
crrn >MI Georsia Ave.
jLLU Silver Sprinc. Md.
Matiner. 1 :uo Ρ M.
RICHARD CROMWELL in
ι "ΧΛΛΪΚ THE WOMAN."
BUFFALO BILL JR.. in
I RAWHIDE ROMANCE "
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JOHN WAYNE
"THE MAN FROM UTAH."
1 Serial.
CT A TC "*ib" Modern" Theatre'
JlAlL «970 Wise. Ave. Bettaesda Md.
OP'.i at 1 :1 ·> P.M.
TED HEALY ROBERT YOUNG.
MADGE EVANS MICKEY ROONEV.
"Death oil the Diamond."
Mammoth Sixth Anniversary Week Show
Starts Sunday— THE CAT S PAW
ΤίΓΛΜΑ 4th and Butternut St*.
1 Aft.UlYlA No Tarkinc Trouble*
RICHARD DIX
•HIS GREATEST GAMBLE.·
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Randolph Scott. "Thunderin* Herd *·
Burns and Alien ' Six of a _Kinrf "
ΑΡΓΑΠΓ HYATTSVILLE. MD."
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Randolph Scott. ' Last Round-Up "
Helrn Twelvetrees 'She Was a Lad y
RICHMOND **
Irene Dunne. "Ace n' Innorcre** "
ARCADE RorK""E MD "
Ranrinlnh Scott. ' Thundfrins Hfiri"
AMBAàSJPlUK γ·Γ Rd. N.*v.
JEAN PARKER. JAMES DUNN in
"HAVE A HEART Crrtoon
APOLLO ÎM H st NE
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GEORGE rvBRIEN in ' LAST TRAP '
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WAP REN WILLIAM. CASE OF THE
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LOWELL "ADVENTURE ΟΥΚ*
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GEORGE O'BRIEN in "DUDE RAN
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JESSE THEATER "t/K"
ROEERT YOUNG in "DEATH ON
THE niAMOND" "SUNDOWN
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