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Joe Penner and Oakie
Star in Lively Picture
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^.Collegiate,” at the Earle, Is Popular Musical
Film—Stepin Fetchit Gets
Rousing Reception.
BY E. de S. MELCHER.
IF IT be treason tc say that Joe Penner is funnier without his duck-then
let this be treason. In “Collegiate,” the New Year smash at the Earle
which the youth of Washington attended yesterday )n a oody, Mr. Penner
exhibits a new humor, a new thumb, a new smirk, a new gurgle, a new
gargle or something. He attacks what remains of that ancient and honorable
stage play, "The Charm School,” now remodeled to At the antics of not only
thp Ppnnpr. but also tbe Oakie. the«2*
Sparks, the young Langford and Betty j
Grable (who has wound Mr. Coogan
around her little finger)—he attacks
all this with a new quantity of acting
oats and is to I
our way of think
ing far funnier
than he has ever
Ibeen before. Mr.
Penner is not,
however, the only
good thing in this
sprightly musical
film which at
yesterday’s first
sitting was re
ceived with roars,
howls, sighs, cries,
| whistles, screams
and cheers. Jack
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Frances Langford. ... , ., .
‘hero of that
well remembered story in which a
young man inherits a girls' school and
remodels it according to the swift,
agreeable methods of the day. In
stead of prodding the young ladies’
craniums with reading, writing and
arithmetic, the svelte young things
are instilled in the art of “rythmic”
♦whatever that is) and taught how to
croon, holler and neigh like A1 Jolson,
Rudy Vallee or even Mr Oakie him
self, who at one particular moment
might be Mr. Jolson himself.
Mr. Oakie behaves himself very well
In the girls’ school except for one
dreadful moment, when, believing
that Miss Langford doesn't really care
for him. he reaches for a bottle, and
Is caught putting away a pint by the
horror-stricken heroine In person.
Apart from this maddening misde
meanor, he goes glibly through the
various dormitories followed by the
Messrs. Sparks. Penner. Gordon and
Revel (tunemakers) and the cop who
wants to know who the dickens Joe
Penner is. When Joe Penner finds
out at last that he is Joe Penner the
plot is practically solved.
Paramount has fingered this theme
With the utmost devotion. For the
eweet young head of the school they
have borrowed Frances Langford from
the radio and made her one of the
new young starlets whose face from
now on will probably adorn many a
Central High student’s dressing bu
reau. From somewhere else they have
seized upon that new small bombshell,
Betty Grable. who we imagine may
be the angel of many a Western High
student's dream. And from some
where else they have hired the most
hideous collection of old hens in the
•world and typified them as school
marms—a state of being which we
should think would rouse all hand
some schoolmistresses to small if not
larger fury.
Paramount has also collared that
cagy clown, Ned Sparks, called him
“sour-puss” and flung him into the
midst of this “charm school.” His
reactions to his unfamiliar environ
ments are among the best things in
the film. And as he treads around
on the heels of Messrs. Penner, Oakie
and Lynn Overman, the cup of fun
in this lively charade seems to be
overflowing and you understand why
there is not only “standing room only”
advertised outside the theater, but
also why there is not even standing
room only inside.
In other words. Mr. Payette’s Earle
has what is known as a howling suc
cess on its hands this week.
* * * *
T)ART of this is due, of course, to
the presence of Stepin Fetchit in
person on the stage—one of the Pox
film company's most popular people.
Mr. Fetchit, you will recall, has never
moved faster than a snail during his
film career and the mere effort to
raise his voice has often plunged him
into sorrow. When he isn't sleeping
(according to his creed) he is wishing
that he was sleeping and the chances
are that his most popular role would
be one in which he could nod gently
throughout the entire film.
Mr. Fetchit (who off stage is prob
ably as alive as any one else) exhibits
evidences of life in his appearance
this week at the Earle and had only
to walk out on the stage to receive
the kind of a reception that even the
great Garbo might envy. His act, too,
was not the disillusioning kind. Keep
ing very much in character he behaved
the way he does in his cinemas, only
once doing a dance to show that he
really can huriV when necessary. His
encores consisted of sending out his
valet to bow for him!
Another excellent act was presented
by the Pollygogs who come from the
French Casino. They deserve every
bit of the enthusiasm shown them
yesterday. A handsome young singer,
a dancing act, and bright-eyed Miss
Seiber complete the bill.
* a * *
VlfE have also heard this very
” minute that the Paramount
Newsreel boys pulled “a fast one” on
their brethren and that they not only
got the President’s speech last night
up to New York by 11:30, but that if
you go to the Earle or the Metropolitan
right now you will see and hear
snatches from it. That's what we call
nice and fast going 1
Capital's Drama Qroups
Cash Prizes to Be Offered in One-Act Play
Tourney—“Benevolent Blackmail”
to Be Done at Roosevelt.
BY HARRY MACARTHUR.
MONEY, which always has had
some uncanny manner of
stimulating interest, is doing
just that for the 1936 one
set play tournament. Cash prizes
are being offered this year for the
four plays entering the finals of the
tourney, and there also will be special
honors for players giving outstanding
performances in the preliminary con
tests.
The tournament will open at Roose
velt Auditorium Tuesday, February 4,
and the entrants will continue to pa
rade their wares on February 6, 8, 11
and 13. The finals will take place
February 15.
Maud Howell Smith is arranging for
Judges for the preliminaries, and
Dorothea J. Lewis, chairman of this
year’s Tournament Committee, is ar
ranging for judges for the finals. Mrs.
E. K. Peeples, director of the Com
munity Center, is chairman ex officio
ef the committee.
Applieations should be entered at
once, as they will not be accepted later
than Monday, and provisions can be
made for acceptance of only the first
20 registrations received.
Even before they got to the dress
rehearsal stage the people in charge
of the play had to find a larger theater
for “Benevolent Blackmail.” It seems
Btate societies and organizations with
in Government circles evinced so much
interest in the drama about job jug
gling and other political whatnot that
an auditorium had to be found with
more seats than the one first selected,
6o the play will have its world premiere
January 21 at Roosevelt High School
auditorium.
Mrs. Miles C. Allgood, wife of the
former Representative from Alabama,
has been recently added to the cast,
which is headed by William E. Bryant
and Paulette Parent. Howard F. Went
worth is assisting Technical Director
i"
Edith I. Allen and Harrold A. Wein
berger is directing the play.
The Columbia Players are all ex
cited over having their first repertory
play in rehersal. which, after all, is
something to merit a bit of excite
ment. The play is Chekhov's “Uncle
Vanya,” to be presented at Pierce
Hall, January 15 and 16, almost a
year after the players' original pro
duction of the drama.
Aurora Poston is directing and
Eileen Fowler, Dorothea Lewis,
Dorothy M. White, Elizabeth Dyer,
Arthur Westover, Wayne Bobst, Wade
Robinson, Joe Bourne and Oliver
Anderson are in the cast, which is
the same personnel as in last year's
production. Jane Lasater Rubey's
sets are the same and Maria Howard's
costumes are the original ones, so it’s
real repertory.
The Pierce Hall Players are forming
the first Washington Verse Speaking
Choir, under the direction of Elinor
Cox Karsten, next Tuesday evening at
Pierce Hall. At this first meeting
Miss Karsten will outline her plans
and there will be a brief talk by
Elizabeth Shepherd, who will tell of
her experience with choral groups in
Europe.
Miss Karsten. who is well known
here for her acting work with various
local groups and with the National
Theater Players, has just completed
a special training course in choral
speaking in New York, studying under
Miss Marjorie Gullan of London,
founder and developer of this branch
of dramatic expression in Scotland
and England.
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Genealogical Society to Meet.
Dr. Henry S. Jacoby will speak to
night at the monthly meeting of the
National Genealogical Society at the
Y. W. C. A., Seventeenth and K
streets. His subject will be “Some
Recent Genealogies.”,
Woman Starves
With Food Nearby,
$30,000 in Bank
Brother-in-law Is Found
Near Death in an Ad
joining Room.
By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, January 4.—More than
$30,000 in the bank and a plentiful
supply of food nearby, Mrs. Anna
Cloutier, 60, was found dead of starva
tion yesterday in her three-story
Bronx home.
The shrunken body was found in a
bed in an unheated room.
In an adjoining room, unable to
leave his own bed, her brother-in-law,
Amedee Cloutier, 60, was found shaken
with palsy and near death from star
vation.
They were discovered when neigh
bors summoned police after water
pipes burst, in the Cloutier basement
and began flooding basements.
It was believed that during the cold
wave, both were taken ill and neither
was able to help the other.
There was a supply of bread, meat
and milk in the kitchen, but appar
ently neither was strong enough to
reach it.
Where and When
—
Current Theater Attractions
and Time of Showing.
Loew's Fox—"The King of Bur
lesque,” at 10:40 a.m., 1:45, 4:25,
•7:10 and 9:50 p.m. Stage shows at
J2:35, 3:30. 6:15 and 9 p.m.
Earle—"Collegiate,” at 10 a.m. 12:20,
2:40. 5, 7:30 and 9:50 p.m. Stage
shows at 11:30 a.m., 1:50, 4:15, 6:40
and 9:05 p.m.
RKO-Keith's — "I Dream Too
Much," at 11:34 a.m., 1:35, 3:36, 5:37,
3:39 and 9:40 p.m.
Palace—“The .Llttlest -Rebel,” -at
11:15 a.m., 1:20, 3:25, 5:30, 7:35 and
9:45 p.m.
Metropolitan—“Show Them No
Mercy,” at 11:20 a.m., 1:25, 3:30,
5:35, 7:40 and 9:45 p.m.
Columbia—“In Old Kentucky,” at
11:25 a.m., 1:30, 3:35, 5:40, 7:40 and
9:45 p.m.
Belasco—“The New Gulliver,” at
12:23, 3:21, 4:19, 6:17, 8:15 and 10:13
p.m.
Tivoli—"Mutiny on the Bounty,”
at 2, 4:30, 7:05 and 9:20 p.m.
Ambassador — “The Rainmakers,”
at 2, 4, 6, 7:50 and 9:45 p.m.
Little—“One Night of Love,” at
11 a.m., 12:53, 2:28, 4:32, 6:06, 7:52
and 9:46 p.m.
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Warner Baxter and Alice Faye have the principal roles in “King of Burlesque," new musical comedy on
the “Forty-second Street’’ pattern, which opened yesterday at Loew’s Fox Theater.
Jack Oakie
Featured in
New Film
—
“King of Burlesque”
Also Stars Baxter
and Alice Faye.
THIS is Jack Oakie week in town.
Although "The King of Bur
lesque." able, tuneful and
agreeable musical film now
playing at Loew's Fox, stars Warner
Baxter, and a very good Baxter at
that, the kind you remember from the
days of "42nd Street,” since Mr. Oakie
is playing in two new films at once
It is evident that Oakie-ism is the
main factor in the week’s entertain
ments, and next to Lily Pons is prob
ably the seasons greatest surprise.
There was a time, not so long back,
when it was apparant that the great
Oakie was slipping. His cheeks had
spun apart and jagged jowls had made
their somewhat unwanted appearance.
Females said he lacked what it takes,
and the huskier race began to think
him less comical than in his earlier
days.
Now suddenly Oakie pops up again
as bright as a new dime and an im«
portant factor to any film which
might happen to have him. While
in "The King of Burlesque” he does
not step on Mr. Baxter's excellent
toes, he does give a bang-up perform
ance—and we. for one, are inclined to
wish him from now on health, happi
ness and more and more cinemas. At
the risk of a leer from the intelli
gentsia, we may almost go so far as
to say that one of these days Oakie
(if he keeps himself down) may be
come one of the really important
actors.
Hie new film in which he and Bax
ter and a lot of other nice stars ap
pear this week at the Fox has mucic
that will last. Fats Waller, who also
will last; Alice Fay, who, while she
may not last, at least is easy to look
upon; Nick Long, jr., who dances like
nobody’s business; a night club which
is probably the peer of all such things,
and Baxter as the despairing producer
who time and time again gets it in
the neck. Hie combination of all
these people and things, plus a good
enough story and Mr. Baxter’s per
suasive manner, makes the film some
thing that you will definitely want to
see.
The stage show presents Leon Na
vara and his orchestra in music and
whatnot that rings the gong with a
vengeance; a Charlie Chaplin, as done
by Frank Conville, which is just about
as good as the gentleman in person;
the Lynn Burno Revue, which has
some good dancing done by Dorothy
Arden, Florence Hedges, Violet West
and Teddy Wren—and—here the boys
from the sports world are having their
Inning—A1 Schacht—clown, comic and
whatnot—in an act that people want
more and more and more of. Mr.
Schacht also plays base ball.
E. de S. M.
CAUSE AND CURE OF WAR
PARLEY TO DRAW MANY
Delegates From 11 National
Women's Organizations Will
Attend Conference Here.
Delegates from 11 national women’s
organizations will attend the eleventh
annual conference on the Cause and
Cure of War, to be held here from
January 21 through January 24.
“Roads to Peace” will be the gen
eral topic for the conference, accord
ing to Miss Josephine Schain, chair
man of the Conference Committee.
Mrs. Kendall Emerson is program
chairman.
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt will be
a speaker at a conference banquet on
the evening of the opening day. Other
banquet speakers will be Mrs. Carrie
Chapman Catt, honorary chairman of
the conference, and Miss Kathleen D.
Courtney, acting president of the Dis
armament Committee of Women’s In
ternational Organisations at Geneva
and head of the British Women's
Peace Crusade.
W. C. T. TJ. to Train Teachers.
EVANSTON,.111., January 4 <*»).—
The W. C. T. D. opened yesterday a
national training school for teachers,
designed to equip them with the latest
data available to combat the alcohol
problem. The school will last three
months.
Washington Wayside
Random Observations of Interesting
Events and Things.
MERCY MAKES MUSIC.
AUSE and effect make good
stories.
For instance, passerby at
2112 F street occasionally
he notes of a well-played ac
i these days, all because some
#o a young Utah school teacher
, piayea good Samaritan to a sheep
■ herder.
The latter was marooned on a
i mountain side, unable to move a port
| able camping outfit which turned out
1 to be not so portable as It was de
I dared to be. The school teacher gave
j him and his outfit a lift, at the end
j of which the sheepherder insisted
upon some form of payment. He fixed
upon his accordion as a medium of
exchange, and nothing could change
his mind.
The girl finally took it, in the
mood if not with the manner of one
acquiring a white elephant.
To make a long story just one par
agraph longer she took it home,
learned to play it. replaced it finally
with one costing $650, moved to Wash
ington, is studying with one of the
country's best teachers, and praottces
regularly—and pleasantly.
* * * *
PLOT?
Many of the parents in the
Broadmoor Apartments still are
wondering whether they were the
victims Thursday of a misunder
standing or a carefully laid juvenile
plot. The Christmas vacation
ended on that day for most of
Washington’s school children, but a
number of those who live in the
Broadmoor apparently had told
their parents how fortunate they
were in having the rest of the
week.
The dark plot came to light when
the evening papers were delivered.
* * * *
HEIGH-HO.
STENOGRAPHERS in the miscel
laneous tax unit of the Bureau of
Internal Revenue are making many
and varied guesses as to why a rep
resentative of Uncle Sam should want
to know their exact heighth.
One pert miss surmised that the of
ficials wanted to know how many
yards of stenographers are employed.
Others, with a hopeful gleam in their
eyes, feel that the statistician may
have been a “scout” from the "Follies”
or the "Scandals.”
* * * *
“NOM.’*
JOHN A. REMON, general manager
J of the Chesapeake & Potomac
Telephone Co. tells a story about two
small boys, about 10 years old, who
recently went into one of the dial ex
changes and asked to be shown
through the office.
The chief operator, thinking to put
them at their ease, and incidentally
learn how much they already knew
about the telephone, asked them if
they had dial telephones at home.
‘'Yes’m,” they replied in unison.
The chief operator hesitated about
her next question and decided to make
it as simple as possible.
“Do you dial your own numbers?”
she asked.
"No’m,” was the answer.
"You don’t?”
"No’m—other people's.’*
* * * *
KEY MYSTERY.
A MEMBER of an old Virginia
family, a lady of rather ad
vanced years, who makes her home at
an Alexandria hotel, returned from
a walk.the other afternoon. She was
tired and complained of an aching
foot as she approached the desk and
requested her key from the clerk.
She was quite annoyed when the
attendant told her it was not there.
In no uncertain tones she demanded
that a search be made for the miss
ing key, which is of rather generous
proportions, with a fiber disk with the
room number attached.
While everybody, from bellhop to
manager, joined in the key hunt the
woman sought an easy chair in the
lounge. There, to relieve her aching
foot, she removed her shoes.
The operation brought immediate
relief to every one. The missing key
fell out of the shoe.
* * * *
SLANGUAGE.
The Army Air Corps Training
Center, though young in years, is
rich in idiomatic expressions and
aeronautical slang. Officers arriv
ing in Washington from the center
use such phrases as: "Get eager,"
meaning to strive to the utmost:
"gun," to gun anything is to have a
waiter get if for you: "rats," those
little rolls or balls of lint and dirt
which accumulate upon the floor
and are most noticeable when
standing at attention during an in
spection of quarters: "mice," little
rats: "pop it out,” to expand one's
chest to the limit: "spin in," to fall
down or get excited; "storm," the
condition one is in when he is ex
cited and doesn’t know what he’s
doing.
* * * *
DENTAL NOTE.
yj^HILE prowling in the snowstorm
recently. Operative 13 came to
the corner of Missouri avenue and
Third street.
As he watched he opened his
mouth, reached up calmly and re
moved his teeth—uppers and lowers.
He put them in his overcoat pocket.
It was one of those things which
could not be allowed to go unex
plained—even by a stranger. The
operative asked why.
Said the gentleman, quite without
a trace of annoyance in his voice:
“My teeth were chattering, and I saw
no reason why I should make myself
feel any colder than I am.'
NURSERY SCHOOLS
AWAIT PERSONNEL
Qualified Workers on Relief List
Lacking—Ten Centers Were
Being Operated.
Reopening of District nursery
schools as a program financed by the
Works Progress Administration has
been postponed until Monday, due to
delays in finding sufficient number of
qualified workers on the relief list for
assignment, officials announced yes
terday.
Ten nursery centers, five white and
five 'colored, formerly were operated
by the District out of its relief funds.
They were abandoned in November,
however, to save funds. Officials say
10 dieticians, 10 teachers and 10
nurses are needed. Seven teachers,
three dietitians and four nurses have
been found on the relief list.
The number of nursery schools to be
opened will depend on approval by
the Board of Education of using prac
tical dietitians and nurses to fill out
the force, officials said.
Named Bible Class Teacher.
James Solt, grand master of the
Independent Order of Odd Fellows,
has been appointed teacher of the
newly organised Men's Bible Class of
Atonement Lutheran Church. The
first meeting of the class will "be held
at 9:45 a.m. tomorrow. The group,
organised by Martin A. McGrory, has
a membership of 35.
Work on Movies Begins
In “Break-Down” Process
Each Department Must Have Script to Pre
pare for Shooting and to Estimate
Probable Expense.
BY MOLLY MEBBICK.
HOLLYWOOD, January 4 (N.A.N.A.).—Just what does money mean on
a Hollywood lot? How much does a studio have to consider tht finan
cial side of a production, even If the story is "tops" in its opinion?
The answer Is obvious when I tell you how a motion picture Is
produced and what distribution and business consideration is given the script
before it is put into actual producton. - ,
To begin with, the procedure Of sending copies of accepted motion picture
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partments Is known around the Holly
wood lots as “breaking down” a script.
Before the wheels of production can
turn, all the skill and Ingenuity of a
score or more departments may be
called upon to find Jpst what their
particular parts of the story will cost
the company when the I'm is made.
Imagine, for Instance, what a tre
mendous task it was to "break down”
the script of “Anthony Adverse.”
Here’s the way It’s done:
As soon as the stenographic depart
ment finishes copying the script,
copies are sent to the following de
partments: Camera, casting, electrical,
location, sound, property, transporta
tion, dance, music, wardrobe, make-up.
cutting, publicity and perhaps one or
two others that I have forgotten.
Each Plots Activity.
The head of each department pro
ceeds to read the script an# make
"plots” of his particular activity in the
story. The cameraman, for instance.
Is interested In day or night scenes.
It may make a lot of difference in the
cost, whether day scenes are such
that they have to be filmed at night
on a stage (and this has often hap
pened), or whether the scenes call for
certain lamps and changes of light
during the action. He must consider
walls and the costumes that will be
photographed against them. He must
understand how to place his camera
angles and just how much this action
will cost, both in workers and equip
ment.
The casting director gets the script
and proceeds to visualize it as he
reads. Trooping through the script
are “old men,” "bankers,” "social
dowagers.” “cutthroats,” “toughs,”
“cowboys,” etc. He makes a list of
the people he thinks might do these
parts well and proceeds to call them
and dicker about financial arrange
ments before he suggests their names
as possible players in the picture.
Why? Because he knows the costs of
his particular department must be
kept down to a certain amount.
Other Problems Involved.
Imagine, then, the problems that
confront the "location man,” who has
to find typical outdoor scenes to fit
the story; the “sound man.” who must
reproduce wha'tever sound effects the
plot calls for; the “property man,"
r
who has to produce anything from a
Victorian antimacassar to an ancient
Egyptian vase.
After these apparently simple mat
ters are settled, think how the mem
bers of the picture personnel feel if
their "art” is neglected in putting a
story together. Imagine how the
“dance man” feels if enough convinc
ing spots aren’t made for his perfectly
drilled Hollywood beauties. He’ll fight
for three minutes in the picture, be
cause his job may depend on it.
Then we have the talented ones
who write music for pictures. They
i feel that the picture should really be
written to display the charm of their
musical numbers.
The men and women who create
screen wardrobes are another group
who consider their work mighty im
portant. And rightly so. What would
some of the film great look like if
they weren’t dressed by artists? These
people study the defects of the beau
ties they dress and do everything in
their power to hide them, while they
bring out the charms that might be
hidden if their clothes weren’t de
signed by artists. •
Make-up is Important.
Make-up artists, too. play an im
portant part in films. Many an ordi
nary looking person has been trans
formed into a youthful, raging beauty
by the man who, patiently and with
great 'art, paints a face on her and
gives her those luxurious eyelashes
that nature may have forgotten to add
to her charms.
If this gives you a rough idea of just
why Hollywood studio workers are en
titled to a long vacation or a minor
nervous breakdown once a year, you'll
be a step nearer the inside of a lot
than you have been before.
After all these things are fought out
and settled, after estimates have been
handed in and scenes and plot cut
down to fit them, we have the present
day motion picture as a result. And
! it’s something that we may be justly
proud of in the end. Perhaps all this
striving and bargaining helps to make
a finished film the smooth, well-bal
anced product it is. At any rate, it's
; Hollywood, with never a dull moment
for any one even remotely connected
i with pictures.
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i Newspaper Alliance. Iac>
No Criminal Prosecution Is
Planned, U. S. Attorney
Says.
No criminal prosecution will reeult
from the grand jury investigation
into the disappearance two years ago
of $7,000 in bonds from the local
hotel room of Henry O. Hart, former
accountant for G. Bryan Pitts, it was
announced yesterday.
Assistant United States Attorney
Charles B. Murray said the jury was
unable to determine whether the
bonds were stolen, or, If stolen, who
was responsible.
Shortly after the jury completed
its quiz of Mrs. Lucille Fuller, long
sought witness, yesterday afternoon,
Hart was called into the jury room.
He had testified at length some time
ago. When the jury finished with
him, Murray announced the investi
gation was closed. He later divulged
that no grounds for indictment had
been found.
Bonds Found in Baltimore.
The bonds disappeared in Febru
ary. 1934, while Hart was ill. Hart
reported the loss to police but heard
nothing of the securities until last
October, when they were located in
Baltimore lr. the possession of en at
torney there.
They were traced back through sev
eral hands, Murray said, but no crimi
nal action could be shown.
Witness Conies From Miami.
Mrs. Fuller came here from Miami.
Fla., to testify. Hart accompanied
her to the oourt house and waited
outside the closed doors of the grand
jury room while she was being ques.
tioned.
The bonds in question were part of
a $40,000 lot Hart said he purchased
from the F. H. Smith Co., which col
lapsed several years ago, bringing loss
to thousands of Investors. Pitts, Its
president, was imprisoned for a 14
year term. ,
..
Wife Divorces Film Actor.
LOS ANGELES. January 4 C43).—
Rita Carewe Mason won a divorce
yesterday from Leroy Franklin Mason,
film actor, after she testified he would
drink and then start nourishing one
of his several guns.
Mrs. Mason Is the daughter of Ed
win Carewe, film producer.
MEETING IS POSTPONED
Chillum Heights Citizens to Elect
In February.
Absence of a quorum, attributed to
interest in the broadcast of the Presi
dent's message to Congress, resulted
last night in the postponement by the
Chillum Heights Citizens’ Association
of its scheduled meeting.
Matters due to come before last
night’s session will be considered at
the regular February meeting, at which
time the annual election of officers
wiU be held.
SEES PROSPEROUS 1936
Central Labor Union Head Opti
mistic for Building Trades.
John A. Locher, president of the
Central Labor Union and secretary
of the Washington Building Trades
Council, today predicted a busy and
prosperous 1936 for the building
trades in Washington.
Reviewing the pending and future
building projects both governmental
and private, Locher said there will be
much work for organized labor, par
ticularly in building trades.
BAND CONCERT. I
By the Soldiers' Home Band Orches
tra at Stanley Hall at 5:30 pjn. today.
John 8. M. Zimmermann. bandmaster;
Anton Pointner, associate leader
March, ‘‘Anna of America,”_Pryor
Overture “Plying Artillery,’*
Borgenholts
Entr*Acte, (a) “Reve Apros le Bal'*
(“Dream After the Ball”). .Boustot
(b) "Polish National Dance,”
No. 1.8ch*rarenka
Excerpts from musical comedy, "The
Band Wagon” ..Schwartz
Characteristic, "March of the Dancing
Dolls” .. Cobb
Waltz suitev "Spring, Beautiful
Spring” .. Uncke
Finale, “The American Legion,”
Vandersleet
“The Star Spangled Banner.”
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MUIIC IV
JEROME KERN
Coining...IRENE DUNNE ia
“Th* Magnificent Obsession'*
GAYETY BURLESK
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The Russian Beauty
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Continuous Prom 1 :OU P.M.
NANCY CARROLL in
••AFTER THE DANCE." E
REX LEASE in
_“THE GHOST RIDER _ !.
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njll 1 UII CARY GRANT in THE LAST j
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PAROIINA llth * n. c. AtcT ii.
WtAULlnA JACKIE COOPER in k,
“DIWKY^, and 'THE THROWBACK_ ;
(NEW) CIRCLE rSX&t
HARRY CAREY. HOOT GIBSON In "POW- ’
DERBMOKE RANGE." “March of Time ' j
DUMBARTON ^"ToT^S; !
‘IVORY HANDLED GUNS.” “Call ol H
the Savage.” No. ri. Comedy f
FAIRLAWN ANACOSTIA-D7C.— J
BUCK JONES in "SUNSET TRAIL "_
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L.11 I LX. Acon.tic.n Equipped
Last Time Today
_GRACE MOORE in >,
“ONE NIGHT OF LOVE.”
_Also ‘Three rattle Pits"
PRFNfFRS 11,9 H st. n.e.
rnintuo ben lyon m ■ prisco ,
WATERFRONT " JOHN W A Y N E in
"THE DAWN RIDER."
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Continuous From 1:00 P.M. :';
Double Peature.
JEAN ARTHUR and ALL-STAR CAST In
“PUBLIC MENACE.”
JOHN WAYNE in "RIDE EM COWBOY." )
• CALL OF THE SAVAGE " Chapter 8.
_Cartoon. Universal News._
STANTON «th and C Sis. N.B 1
>31 nil lUIl Finest Sound Equipment
Continuous From 1:0(> P M.
"BORN FOR GLORY GEORGE O'BRIEN
In A HOLY TERROR "_
CTATF ... “TBe Modern Theater”
Olnlb eiMTU Wise. Are., ttethesda, M0.
Two Featres—TOM BROWN to 'i
“FRECKLES.”
Also ZASU PITTS and JAMES GLEASON in ii
“HOT TIP.”
TAKTIMA 4>h *nd Butternut Sts.
lAM/ITlA No Farklnt Troublei
Continuous From 1:00 P.M.
EDMUND LOWE in
“GRAND EXIT.”
TOM BROWN in '
“FRECKLES.”
And PflFfl Rbnrt Riihi*rti
M HIPPODROME * Today*** 1
.3 JOAN CRAWFORD in
* “I LIVE MY LIFE.”
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72 John Wayne. “Rainbow Valley.”
t/3 Zaau Pitts. “Affair of Susan "_
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O nnLnLFt Double Feature
George O'Brien. “Thunder Mountain.”
e Zasn Pitts, “She Gets Her Man "
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JJ Gary Cooper. “Peter Ibbetson.”_
£ MILO BOCK^nXE. ' D.
^ Buck Jones. “Outlawed Guns '*_‘
AMBASSADOR J5‘h & MS&
WHEELER and WOOLSEY In “THE
RAINMAKERS " Musical._
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Double Feature—Show Start! I P.M, *
"BAD BOY." "TRANSATLANTIC
TUNNEL.'' “Great Air Mystery."
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• WHEELER and WOOLSEY In "THE
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fiC ‘THIS IS THE LIFE." WALTER CON
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P"^ FREDRIC MARCH. MERLE OBEROH
In "THE PARK ANGEL “_
TIVOLI ““AiSpay1*
Mstlnee. 2:00 P.M.
CLARK GABLE In “MUTINY ON THE
BOUNTY.” "Orest Air Mystery."
No. 4, -_
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WALTER C. KELLY In “THE VIR
GINIA JUDGE " Kiddle Musical.
JESSE THEATER18?!.*^
Double Feature.
.a “CASE OF THE MISSING MAN." with
r3 ROGER PRYOR and JOAN PKRRV.
CSX "IVORY HANDLED GUNS." BUCK
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5 JACK HULBERT and FAY WRAY.
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