Evening Star Newspaper, May 4, 1930, Page 26

B-—10 THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, FIRST 1930 STAR MODEL HOME NOW OPEN TO PUBLIC 5 4o O has really done Mr. admiral with the material before him, Be the situation MAY 4, 1930—PART ONE. The naval delegates to the London convention are seen returning from FIRST STAR HOME | RERGE B \NTWOBEE) SHOWS [P mermedi, ~| DISMISSAL OF SUIT OPENED 70 PUBLIC Washington Is Invited to In-| spect Colonial House at 6502 Maple Ave. The first of the series of five model ' ‘homes, this year by The Star in co-operation with the Operative Builders' Association, was opened this The public of greater Washington eordially is invited to visit this unusual | Colonial dwelling at 6502 Maple avenue, in the forest section of Chevy Chase, todsy or on any succeeding day in the ensuing month. This house was built for the exhibi- | tion by the firm of Shannon & Luchs, Inc., from plans by Arthur B. Heaton, | Jocal architect, under the approval and | pupervision of The Star model homes sommittee. Open Until 10 P.M. | The Chevy Chase dwelling will be, Shen design, construction, decoration furnishing will be welcome to inspect the many new ideas incorporated in the house. The place will be open to the public during the same hours on succeedinj today from 10 am. to 10 pm. | all interested in modern home, and | g days during the mext four | ‘weeks. i To reach the dwelling, the visitor| may drive out Connecticut avenue to Bradley lane, left to Maple avenue,| then right for three blocks to the| house. It also may be reached by driving out Wisconsin avenue to Brad- lane, right to Maple avenue, then Jeft to the house. Street car lines on ‘Wisco) and Connecticut avenues also will take the visitor to the section. Signs Mark Route. Star model home signs mark the te to the 3 'M';'he dwélling has been furnished for the period of the demonstration by the department store of Woodward & Lothrop. A feature of the exhibition the showing in a prominent the F street front of Wood- Lothrop of an exact scale the model home, which was the architect, Mr. Heaton. bers of The Star model homes are: Monroe Warren and . Lusk, the president and secre- the 'Operative Builders’ Asso- ; Louis Justement, past president the local chapter of the American titute of Architects: W. J. Waller, president: of the District Bankers' As- sociation; Maj. Donald A. Davison, As- t Engineer Commissioner; Alfred ‘Lawson, president of the Washing- ton Real te Board, and & repre- sentative of The Star. CHILDREN PRESENT = SPRING PAGEANT West School Kindergarten Pupils Portray Story in Song and Costumes. with all that it brings, was in song, story and in appro- the children of the Emma 8. tg:“mu 2 Lodeie T. e i the tation -of the forth the plaudits of the audi- many of whom exp great satisfaction, not only with the presenta- tion of the play, but with the initiative shown by t.ga dren in the making of their costumes and the scenery, and the zest with which they entered into the presentation. | THE WEATHER l District of Columbia, Wyut.\:‘d and Wirginia—Fair today, tomorrow increas- a cloudiness and warmer; bably by showers tomorrow afternoon or night. West Virginia~—Fair and slightly ‘warmer today; showers tomorrow. Record for Twenty-four Hours. ‘Temperature—Midnight, 72; 2 am., €8; 4 am, 63; 6 am, 60; 8 a. 63; 10 , 67; 12 noon, ; 6 pm., 75; 8 p. Highest, 79; lowest, 60. ‘Temperature same date last year— Highest, 67; lowest, 46. Tide Tables. (Purnished by United States Coast and “Today—Low Nids, 698 —1] e, 6: A pm.; high tide, 12:06 a. pm. ‘Tomorrow—Low tide, 7:44 8:3¢4 p.m.; high tide, 1:12 a. om. The Sun and Moon. Today—Sun rose 5:07 am.; sun sets %:03 pm. ‘Tomorrow—Sun rises 5:06 a.m.; sun pets 7:04 pm. Moon rises 9:50 a.m.; sets 12:42 a.m. Automobile lamps to be lighted one- hour after sunset. ‘Weather in Various Citles. ~Temperature.— Precipt- Max. Min. _ tationi8 Bat- Fri. Sat.o.m.lo urday.night.8p.m 8 23222RBIIN3L FISARBIIIGINBRAEI 2R IRLRIVIIR BPERT AT TSRS 2B RB LR IBETABSBTIITEISBTINTRIIVIIAL B M FENE R PMP N REREL LY FIRIITITXBIAAAS! | Colonial dwelling at 6502 Maple avenue, Chevy Chase, which is open for public inspection from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. daily throughout the ensuing month. —Star Staff Photo. From the Front Row Reviews and News of Washington's Theaters. “Hamlet” at Poli's With Walter Hampden. AMLET, the role akove all others that is the aim of every thespian, was played yesterday afternoon at Poii’s for the only time this week by Walter Hampden, the American actor, whose genius is undisputed. It was not the first time in Washing- ton that Hamp- den played the part of the Mel- ancholy Dane, but it probably was the last time that Shakespeare's most tormented character should come to life and father will shortly walk in a ghostly thea- ter when this bullding has been razed. It was a splendid performance and a princely reading that Hampden gave his princely character. He does not affect the accent known as British, but speaks his words “trippingly on the tongue” in clean-cut yet American accent. His actions, too, have not the old swash- buckling florid quality, but are re- strained and sincerely convincing. His Hamlet is no half-baked neu- rotic. He is a man of dignity and regal stature, poetic of soul, who is merely an instrument of “a divinity that shapes our ends, rough hew them how we may,” as he says in the final act. ‘The unusual completeness of this production, unusual in this day of shortened versions, brought many additional side-lights to bear upon the character of Hamlet and also of other important roles. As the play unfolded smoothly and real- istically, scene melting into rcene, the spectator could not but wonder how ‘any one could cut this beauti- fully and logically constructed work. Each word seemed necessary to fit & definite place in a mosaic pattern. The only moments that might have been spared were the final ones of the last scene when the news is brought too late for Hamlet's hear- ing, that his revenge on traitorous members of his uncle’s court, has been carried out. Even so, this scene had its place in completing one of the many threads of this story. It was most effective scenically, too. ‘There is no need to tell the story of Hamlet here. There is no play s0 overwhelmingly filled with verbal riches that have been taken as quota- tions and made into the tapestry of everyday use for generations ,as is Hamlet. Mr. Hampden leaves three re- markable portraits with his audi- ences this week. Undoubtedly the amallest audience of all was the ane for ‘“Haml as the beautiful :-:'fih"u-‘ndl - m."nuthh:uir mm; strongly against lure of the most tragic of all plays. How- ever, there was not a doubt that Mr. Hampden had every member of that audience with him sympathetically throughout the performance, long as it was. They lingered in the darkened aisles to call him before the curtain at the end. Supporting company was excel- lent with particularly vivid and human qualities bestowed upon Po- lonius by Moffatt Johnston; Hora- tio by Dallas Anderson; Queen of Denmark, by Caroline Meade; Laertes by Ernest Rowan. ‘The sane moments of Ophelia were admirably done by Mabel Moore. Her later scenes were well done, but ;l"nflulonll h ditional type rather than an indi- vidual in his king. The settings were exceptionally fine, and the lighting artistic. The costuming was beautiful. The lesser roles were handled in a manner far from the usual woodeness. It is amazing the real quality of these imaginary characters of Shake- speare’s. ‘The lyric magic of their Walter Hampden. es is always freshly eh-.rmmg. It was as though Hamlet were embark- Headache-Eye Strain Eyes Examined ing upon a famous operatic air when he began the famous soliloquy, “To be, or not to be,” and again in the pleading with his mother in the third act, one sensed the particular- ly tense attention of the audience upon every word. Surely the thea- ter cannot be doomed when there are men like Hampden, young, sin- cere*and inspired to carry on in the masterpieces by the Bard of Avon. “Young Eagles” Thrills Palace Patrons. T the Palace this week, amidst the roar of airplanes and the bursting of bombs in air, that pop- ular young actor, Charles “Buddy” Rogers, appears in a thrilling war picture, with pretty Jean Arthur playing the leading feminine role. ‘Those who still enjoy scenes from those frantic, battle-scarred days of the great World War, will be genu- inely thrilled at “Young Eagles,” in which there is shown some fiying and actual battle scenes as remark- able as those which caused & sensa- tion in the picture, “Wings.” A rather interesting plot to the story lends a bit of originality to the picture which is showing at Loew's Palace this week. Lieut. Robert Banks (“Buddy” Rogers), on leave in Paris, falls in love with a girl whom he presumes to be an Amer- ican. Later she disappears with a German, whom Banks had previ- ously taken as a er, Dis- {llusioned and belie: the girl to be a German spy, the younf leu- tenant loses all interest in life. He is about to undergo an operation after a crash, which the doctor feels will be fatal, due to the man’'s attitude of mind, when he learns that his sweetheart is, in fact, one of the cleverest spys in the American service. An excellent vaudeville' is._offered in addition. Teddy Joyce, as master of ceremonies, returns from the Capitol Theater in New York to pre- sent a skit entitled, “All Aboard.” The characters in the act, including the ballet, personify passengers or personnel of a ship. Joyce intro- duces an amusing and shadow dance before a specially spread curtain. Hilarity is aroused by the two funny men, Seed and Austin, introduced as stowaways on the “ship of fun.” Excellent aing- is offered by a colored quartet, r Emporors of Harmony,” cos- tumed as the chefs of the ship, in- cluding the spiritual, “All Over God's Heaven.” Josephine Davis is very funny as a stammering comedienne, also proves to be an agile dancer despite her awkward appearance. Good dancing by the Chester Hale girls in preity costumes rounds out the am. An International News reel and the Hearst Metrotone are included in the picture program. “Temple Tower,” Mildly Amusing at Fox. ‘HIS week's picture at the Fox has s strangely familiar tang to it. Entitled “Temple Towers,” it purports to relate the further adven- tures of that estimable mflhmmy “Bulidog” Drummond. it is because his former ramblings have worn him out or because Ronald Coleman isn't in it, or because the present vehicle smacks of everything on the face of the earth that has been pounded out a thousand times before on the screen, the result, to say the most, is only moderately amusing entertainment. Once upon a time, 80 goes this supposedly mysterious yarn, there ‘was a dismal house known as Temple Towers, in which stolen emeralds, worth a young fortune, were being stored. It was one of these weird houses which was always being rained on and around which dogs howled and lights flashed as strange signals. To this abode of the human devil came a young girl—you know, the sweet tender thing, niece of the man from whom the jewels had dis- appeared—who applied for & job as secretary to the old fiend and who was, of course, immediately impri- soned. To this house also came the clever “Bulldog” Drummond and his fright- fully British friends, who during the Positively Relieved By DR. A. S. SHAH An Unusual Ofter This Week Toric Lenses See Far THE EASY FRAME Kryptok Invisible Bifocal Lenses First and best quality. Kryptok Bifocal Lenses (one pair Best lenses Sold regularly $15. cial price this week ............ SAVE $5-0 to $7-00 SHAH, OPTIGHL CO.. to see near and far). made. Toric 7 .00 Spe- ON YOUR EYE GLASS BILL first 10 minutes of the film said “Old boy!” 29 times, Just what happens after that it is unfair to say—or rather if you can’t guess you had better see the movie. Kenneth MacKenna has a grand time with the part of “Bulldog” and 50 does Henry B. Walthall with one of his sinister roles. Marcelline Day is pretty much waste material as the girl, and so is the British gentle- man, who, after falling down for the tenth time, ceases to be amusing, ‘To make up for whatever may be lacking in screen entertainment this week, there is a mule on the stage that easily claims stellar honors. There may have been more personable mules before, but cer- tainly no animal has ever been trained to kick out his back feet at the proper moment as this one does. He is a thing of joy, if not of beauty, forever. “Red Donohue and His Pal” are very, very fine, as are the Fox newsreel, the orchestral overture and Alexander Callam. E.deS.M. “The Divorcee” Has Its Trying Angles. RSULA PAROTT'S “anonymous” best seller, “Ex-Wife,” has been dusted, fumigated and prepared as alatable fare for the screen pub- digestion in “The Divorcee,” this week's attraction at Loew’s Columbia. The story as amended turns out to be an often stimulating bit of drama, with some excellent acting to the credit of Norma Shearer and Chester Morris and Robert Montgomery. Using the novel as a rl on which to drape a tangled and quite bitter account of how modern marriages may go on_the rocks, the diregtor, Robert Z. Leonard, has wisely in- serted much i3 comic as well . He has of man’s unfaithfulness to woman and vice versa, which is the mold for the “ex-wife,” with much good taste. He has insinuated more than he has told. He has made human the man and the wife who are the cause of the complications. ‘The first part of this film, glimpsing Jerry's marriage an first three years of married life with her newspaper reporter husband (Chester Morris) is done amusing- ly. After that, when the “stormy petrol” enters the home in the form of the woman with whom Jerry's husband has had an affair, there is a climax, which is done with ‘even greater skill and restraint. As soon as Jerry, when her husbind is away, “balancés the account,” her erring husband promptly leaves her to be- come an ‘“ex-wife,” thus proving, it would seem, that man after all is the less admirable of the sexes. ‘The latter part of the film, re- lating the downfall of Jerry, for some reason seems long and not so interesting. But at the end, after all the storms and trials, when Jerry finds her husband as down and out as she is, everything seems to wind up as it should—and not unpleas- antly at that. Norma Shearer, as_Jerry, acting more and more like Ruth Chatter- ton, is pretty nearly perfect. Ches- ter Morris has been cast wisely and does his bit with much feeling. It remains, however, for Robert Mont- gomery to accomplish even greater things than either of them in a role which seems to have been built for him especially. Laurel and Hardy, in one of their ridiculous comedies, “Men O' War”; the Columbia Orchestra and the Hearst-Metrotone news reel com- plete the program. E. de 8. M. “Ingagl” Held Over Still Draws the Crowd. OT often does an animal picture enter into competition with the modern thriller in drawing the crowds to the photoplay palaces, but Sir Hubert Winstead's startling African views grouped under the title “Ingagl,” which, we are told, means gorilla, is “packing them in with a vengeance” at the R-K-O Theater, where the production has entered its second week. Aside from the fact that it is novel in its presentation of animals unfamiliar to the average amuse- ment seeker and in great abundance, with thrilling encounters that make the audience gasp and wonder at the outcome, the outstanding ele- ment of the picture is centered around the gorilla touch with hu- manity, and this is pictured with startling frankness, if not abandon. That the picture mieets a public demand of a kind cannot be denied; that it is drawing capacity audiences is patent to any of the Thomases who may be inclined to doubt. Sound novelties and Freddie Clark with his R-K-Olians furnish s supplemental program of enter- tainment. L. H. W. “Da Souls” At the Little Theater. “DAHAGID SOULS,” featuring Corliss Palmer, in the story of & wayward girl, who paid the with four supplemental reels clinieal eharacter, is being held over for another week at the Little Thester, “for showing to men only.” It is a production of the Public Wel- fare Corporation. Marital Secret Revealed. NEW YORK, May 3 (#).—One great secret of martail happiness or advice given to a husband by Supreme Court Remember the dates of ECLIPSE OF SUN Return of Naval Delegates Also Pictured in Star- Universal Film. Persons who were not in California during the total eclipse of the sun will still be able to see it effectively re- produced on the screen by The Evening Star - Universal Newsreel now playing at Warner Bros. and other prominent theaters. ‘The total eclipse could only be seen from Camptonville, Calif., although mil- lions of persons in the country saw a partial ec|:nse through smoked glass. Members of the Johns Hopkins University traveled to the coast to make an observation of the moon crossing the sun’s path. Graham McNamee, National Broad- casting Co. ace, gives a vivid descrip- tion of the eclipse and tells the story of other news events which take place in all parts of the world. Music for the newsreel is furnished party of sclentists from ! Europe. They were hafled by crowds at New York, where they were greeted by acting Mayor McKee. They were followed to Washington, where Secre- tary of State Stimson turned over the official doucument to President Hoover. 1In New York City 60,000 reds gathered on May day in a peaceful demonstra- tion. Police, however, kept a check on the great crowds and prevented any rioting from starting. A demonstration of & different char- acter also was held in New York City, where hundreds of school children met in a monster rally for Child Health day. ‘These children dl’?lme: 1’% m\‘l:%;lc:llm costumes _represen i X The day 'llv-! planned to start a fight against diphtheria. Show Standards Bureau Tests. In Washington the newsreel shows a terrific fire sweeping airplane hangars in a sensational test of automatic ex- tinguishers at the Bureau of Standards. Among other interesting events is a foot ball game held at Paris, at which the Welsh rugby team defeated the French by 11 to (':hcl'(:::! km“t“% Té holy images pass in a ageant hel lnlyBelglgm: the eaublugmem of a lookout t on top of a 175-foot tree at Hoquiam, Wash., to protect Indians from forest fires; fancy diving through targets at a Los Angeles pool, where Olympic aspirants made aerial bulls- eyes in practice meet, and a millinery show in New York Cit: ASKED BY FINANCIERS Claim Chipman, Seeking $78,000 Accounting, Has Not Stated Facts ‘Warranting - Hearing. Albert E. Pierce, president of the Central Public Service Corporation of Chicago, yesterday filed in the District Supreme Court a motion to dismiss the suit for an accounting for $78,000 claimed to be due to G. Bowie Chip- man, Washington stock broker, for se- curing stock of the Washington Gas Light_Co. under an alleged agreement with Piefce to pay him $1 per share for putting the buyers in touch with the gas st_ck owners. 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