Evening Star Newspaper, March 13, 1931, Page 37

PLAY INSTITUTE 70 OPEN MONDAY Community Center Depart- ment Has Charge of Party |hign and Stunt Program Series. ‘Washington’s second annual Play In- stitute, under auspices of the Com- munity Center Department, will open Monday night, March 16, at 8 o'clock at Wilson's Teachers’ College, Eleventh and Harvard streets. Six Monday meetings are scheduled in the institute, programs of which are intended to demonstrate games, stunts, party pro- m and other play features for of child and adult groups. Mrs. Elwood Street is to be chair- man of the institute. ‘The first Play Institute, held last year, was taken part in by many agencies conducu.n! regular recreation in Wi gton. Registra- may be made in advance of Mon- t, at the Play Institute office, Administration Building, Thirteenth and K streets, or at the door of the Teachers’ College upon interest. The program, to include dramatic stunts and games, will be conducted ;y experienced leaders from many et ?rgwmnanm . Statistics show _gasoline consump- tion in the United States was 6 per cent greater in 1930 then in 1929. day THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, MOVIES AND MOVIE PEOPLE BY MOLLIE HOLLYWOOD, Calif, March 13 (N.AN.A) —There has been a lot of talk about cutting salaries in the cinema village, but up to now not a lot of action. However, some recent slashes have made even the most impregnable sit up and raise their eyebrows a notch er. One hears that Evelyn Laye would not accept Samuel Goldwyn’s new—and , lower—figure for a new contract, and has gone on to green fields and pas- tures new without any great battle from Mr. Goldwyn. One hears that a good many $2,500- a-weekers are taking $1,500 and liking it, but that is due mostly to the incur- sion of the legitimate players and the stabilizing of salaries that was bound to follow. One hears that Hollywood's newest leading man gets only $1.50 a day. It's quite true. Elmer McIntosh, who carries the male “it” in a picture called “A Foul | Affair,” is listed on the $1.50 line. He’s| a handsome creature, who can swagger and who has menace and then some. One hears that he can make Jack Gilbert look sick when it comes to that threatening “I'll get you yet, kid,” ex- pression. And he's under long-term contract. Of course, he's a rooster. And the other players have all been recruited from the barnyard, but some of us are backing Elmer to hold his own with Conrad Nagel and the rest of the high- priced lads of Hollywood. And if you don't believe that we make our pictures “without any time lost on thinking.” as Moss Hart says in “Once in a Lifetime,” listen to this one: MERRICK. When Zasu Pitts called yesterday to hear about the part she was to play in an R-K-O picture she found she wasn't going to be in it at all. The had been rewritten a little and given to Jimmie Gleason! Constance Cummings, the little girl who was imported for Ronald Colman’s leading lady and was let out of the cast after a brief trial, has done pretty well for herself elsewhere. She's blond and slim and pretty in a very intriguing way. She has wistful eyes and a certain flower-like loveliness that always goes well with the camera. And she acquitted herself nobly in “The Criminal Code,” a picture which turned out very well, by the way. She has a slight resemblance to Car- man Barnes, Jesse Lasky's newest find, although Constance Cummings’ features are a bit more regular than the little Barnes. At the present time she's at R-K-O, and frcm the smiles on pro- ducers’ faces she won't have any trouble keeping the wolf from the door for some time to come. If you dop't succeed on one lot, try, try again. Bill Powell, who fought with Para- mount over the parts they have been giving him, got something which dis- played his varied talents very, very nicely in “Man of the World,” a some- what mediocre picture, which neverthe- less had an interesting theme and which gave Powell a chance to speak his very excellent French, “Man of the World” is a story all about the blackmailers who threaten to write up gay, fat, rich Americans and Americanesses in Paris. When grandpas and grandmas tried to revive their salad days over the Ritz homestretch while the audi- stood in the most awesome silence. It ruined my races, but nothing can (Copyright, 1931, by North American News- Paper Alliance.) GOLD GIVEN MESSENGER Walter Douglas, colored messenger in the Treasury Department, assigned to Undersecretary Ogden L. 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WHITEHURST EXPLAINS NEW STREET PROJECT Board of Trade Committee at Luncheon Gets Details of Five-Year Program. Capt. H. C. Whitehurst, District high- way engineer, explained contemplated improvements of local streets and high- ways to the Streets and Avenues Com- mittee of the Board of Trade at its luncheon in the Raleigh Hotel yes- terday. Members of the committee, headed by George V. Graham, questioned the en- gineer concerning the workings of the “five-year program” for street and high- way improvement. It indorsed the con- templated widening of Thirteenth street from Monroe street to Spring road, and also from Massachusetts avenue to Lo- gan Circle. The latter project, the FRIDAY, MARCH 13, 1931. mitted to the trade body's Board of Directors. 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