Evening Star Newspaper, September 26, 1931, Page 3

LINDBERGH ROUTED BY MOB OF CHINESE Relief Party Returns at Once to Save Plane, Periled at Flood Area Stop. By the Associated Press NANKING, September 26.—A crying, starving throng surrounded the plane of Col. Charles A. Lindbergh when it Janded on flood waters near Hinghwa, Northern Kiangsu Province, today and for a time it was feared the craft would be seriously damaged and even its oc- cupants harmed. Coming in sampans, tubs and any- thing floatable, the throng surged around the plane, snatching at packages it contained. The desperately hungry natives wanted food and were bitterly disappointed when they learned the plane brought only medical supplies. Col. Lindbergh, Dr. Heng Liu, director of the National Flood Relief Commis- sion's department of hyziene and san- itation, and Dr. J. N. Grant, American faculty member of the Peiping Union Medical College, who made the flight, took off almost immediately to return to Nanking, deciding they could do nothing except save the plane from pos- sible damage. Hinghwa has been ficoded for nearly & monith, its residents being forced to make their way around in various watercraft. Speaking of the incident, Col. Lind- bergh said: “It was the most heart-rending ex- perience of my career.” He sald it was not the possible dan- ger that worried him 2nd his com- panions as much as it was the resliza- tion of their helplessness when con- fronted by such a welter of human misery 50 near starvation and unable even to understand the humanitarian purpose of the visit. Hinghwa is 70 miles northeast of Nanking and almost in the center of the lowest point of the basin between the Grand Canal and Yellow Sea. Nor- mally it is a thriving market town. It| 1= the county seat of Hinghwa County, which prior to the flood had a popula- tion of 600.000. Mrs. Lindbergh missed the trying ex- perience. She remained at Nanking when the party took off earlier in the day, deciding Dr. Liu and Dr. Grant would need the space she might occupy. At least five stops in the flooded area east from the Grand Canal had been planned by the party, but the ex- perience at Hinghwa, their first stop, sent them back to Nanking discouraged at the failure of their plans to use | Col. Lindbergh's plane to distribute | medical units throughout the Kiangsu Province flood zone. It seemed likely the scheme would be sbandoned and other methods sought whereby Col. and Mrs. Lindbergh might serve the Flood Relief Commission. The inundation of Hinghwa began six weeks ago, but the situation became critical when the Grand Canal dykes, 30 miles west of there, broke August 25, and the inrushing canal waters steadily filled the basin. Hinghwa is now under 10 feet of water. In the past month Hinghwa has been virtually isolated, with the nearest dry Jand 25 miles ay. Little food has reached the city, and the supply is at its lowest. Col. Charles A. Lindbergh earlier to- day received China's aviation medal from President Chiang Kai-Shek as a token of the country’s admiration of his distinguished record and in appre- ciation of his volunteer flood relief gervices. Mrs. Lindbergh watched the head of the Chinese state pin the medal on her hu-2and’s breast. Lindbergh is the first_person, Chlnexe or foreign, to be sw2rdad the medal After the formal ceremocny at the Naticn°l government offices, Mme. Chiang Kaj-Shek joined the group for an informal chat. Then all emerged to the sunshine on the lawn in front of the offices and posed for photographs. Will Rogers CHELSEA Okla.—I am in Okla- homa pinch-hitting for Gov. Murray. He is in St Louis today fix- ing the unem- ployed. 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As he minder of his service—it is easy to make him believe that the distin- guished visitor is still a friendly figure, The one who sub-titutes is Poll,” played by Ruth Chatterton. It is always possible to find in the acting of this star clear talent which flluminates the characteristics of almost any type of personality. She impressed one with the fact that either whim or determination has behind it the force of a mind which is treined by its environment. As a piece of stage work it is worthy of attention. In “The Magnificent Lie,” which is unusual in the iv- pression that it gives and odd in its development. Miss Chatterton is still the artist, although no apparent mo- tive discloses the keenness of a good conscience. The play creates inter- est in a series of incidents that represent successive experiences of dramatic force, and in- their develop- ment Miss Chatterton has the sup- port of & most capable company. Chief among the members is Ralp Bellamy, and notwithstanding the film emphasis on what should be merely routine exhibitions of ero- tion, his work is worthy of the role of the victim of the magnificent lie. Others who contribute are Stuart Erwin, Francoise Rosay (as the dis- tinguished ' actress), Sam Hardy, Charles Boyer, Tyler Brooke, Tyrell Davis and Jean Del Val. The stage presentation at the Fox is based on the “Carnival Idea,” and has a group of entertaine:s, in addition to some conspicuously well trained formations by the Carla ‘Torney dancers. Those who are in. cluded in the list of acts are Raynor Lehr and_company, billed as “The Joy Boys From the South”; a trained bear, which is directed by Louis E. Goody, assisted by two persons from the audience; the Andresens and Cropley and Violet. D.C.C. “Street Scene” Fine Film at Columbia. “S'I’Rm' SCENE” is an unusual- ly effective film and should be seen by every one who is out to see the best. Taken bodily from the stage and transplanted to the screen, it has lost none of its power; in fact, if anything, it has many added vir- tues. It continues, fortunately, for a second week at Loew's Columbia. The ctly sordid atmosphere of an East Side tenement house in New York is its substance. Com- bining an average amount of humor with an infinite amount of pathos, there is enough of everything in it to satisfy the most exorbitant demands of the multitude. Those who can watch the “emotings” of Sylvia Sid. ney dry-eved had best stay away from the cinema pavilions forever. Here 1s a performance and a per- Ruth Chatterton. il W A A corner just completed by W, @ J. Sloane) well worth your immediate inspection. YOU will find the lobby and lounges of The Kennedy-Warren (furnishing and decoration And while you are here, be sure to see the furnished Exhibit Apartments, and germit us to show you the many unueual features that contribute so much to gracious living, and make remem- * former destined to rank high among the achievements of the year. Miss Sidney, far from teing strictly a v, has yet that something about her smile which is said to have wilted_even the stiff upper lip of the law. ‘A young actress who is un- afraid of being herself, she has more talent then any young lady ciscov- ered this season by the camera. Others in' this grim saga of what goes on before and inside of a brown-stone front, are such splendid portraits es cn'y Estelle Tayor or young Colliar, or Beula Bondi could give. The camera sequences are ex- cellent. The atmospheric “depres- sion” is excellent—in fact, the whole is A-1 material for the biue ribbon, if there should be such a thing as Pulitzer Prize movie, 0o far it seems that the au- es haven't bren over large. This is ore of those things that it is im- possible to understand. You won't be cheered up by it—but you'll be genuinely stirred. And what better for a nice cool September evening? E.de 8. M. “Smart Woman,” At R-K-O- Keith's. F during your absence, your lonely husband strays from the path of connubial fidelity, don’t stab or poison his sweetie. but invite her home and treat her like a sister! At least, that is the method adopt- ed with success by the wife in “8mart Woman" at R-K-O Keith's, who loves her husband enough to fight for him. It is difficult to say whether without the assistance of an obliging gentleman friend the wife eould so easily have regained her husband's side-tracked affec- tions. But nevertheless, the idea as a whole of bringing a rival within one's own camp grounds Is strategi- cally sound, if one is ciever enough not to bungle the maneuvers at such close quarters. . - From the chuckles emanating from the masculine contingent witnessing “Smart Woman’s” premiere ' at Keith's yesterday, it was apparent that many of the complications presented in the story were familiar to the audience and that the wife was indged a smart lady and a su- perior meral in her silent cam- paign for her husband's wavering devotion. With a wife as lovely as Mary Astor (in the role of Nancy), it is difficult to belleve that a hus- band would want to wander, but as Nancy's philosophical brother-in- law observes “all men do.” A big slice of credit for the real comedy of “Smart Woman" goes to Edward Horton as the biother-in- law, Bill, who takes sides with Nancy in her fight for her husband. Sharing a close second with Mary Astor in the character honors of the play is also John Halliday, as Sir Guy, the Englishman who arouses in the husband an appreciation of his wife’s charms, by stirring his jeal- ousy. Noel Francis, as Peggy, the “sweetie,” is excellent as the vampy 1iitin on'd-dieger. end she is ably as- sisted in her man-hunt by Gladys Gale, a scaeming, designing mo.her. Robert Ames, as the husband who quickly - consoled himself with the blonde gold-digger during his wife's absence abroad, is one of those per- sons that screen fans argue about. Some like him and some don’t. In this instance he seemed the one dis- cordant note in the entire play. All told, “Smart Woman" brings a new apex to the eternal triangle. Clever lines, combined with the novel, and, as Nancy explains, modern idea of a wife entertaining in her home the woman who is try- ing to take it from her, guarantee some good laughs. Several short reel pictures, in- clude a Grantland Rice sport num- STAR, WASHINGTON, D. . €, SATURDAY, ESPRETTRRS | ber, & rather siily comedy, “False Roomers.” and an entertaining ani- mated cartoon. G.8. 8. “The Squaw Man" At Loew's Palace. JLOEW'S PALACE is -presenting “The , Squaw Man,” in which William Faversham attained to un- dreamed-of ‘heights many a year ago on the stage. It is & long and some- what rambling yarn of how a titled Britisher wedded a dusky lady from the land of the buffalo and the “tom-tcms,” and how he remained faithful to her even when a blonde goddess from Piccadlily came and said she was “free—free—free.” Although the first audience at the Palace trested this with little re- spect, 1t is not es bad as it sounded erday, Wwith sophomoric hey- yism permeating the hail, and in its last stages it reaches .a_definite state of tear-eyed virtue. One ¢an almost imagine what it was like once on the stage. Sctme of it is still fairly likable. Warner Baxter, whose wisplike mustache is one of Hollywood's greatest boasts, in the role played by the famed Willlam Faversham, is natural and unaffected—although he recovers normality after drinking a quart of gin with astonishing rapidity. His direct methed of attack, however, in the final scenes is more than effective, and when he says good-by to his little son the tears which” are in evidence around and about might easily float an armada. Incidentally, the boy who -plays “Hal” seems destined for great things in the cinema since the camera doesn’t deter him one jot or one fota from being a nice, genial little boy who would rather play with his “white man” trains than with the pop-eyed horse which his Indian mother had fashioned for him. It is, in fact, when he is pres- ent that this picture comes near to being good—and one can forget the frightful “fox hunting” scene in England, which apparently has been taken right around the corner from th: Indian country in which Warner Baxter was Jivipg. The Jové story in this, supplied by two_ladies, Eleanor Boardman, as the British wife and widow, and Lupe Velez, as the Indian girl whose one bit of conversation with her hus- band seemed to be “I understand,” is doubtfully realistic. Mijss Board- man is inclined to lean against some- thing every time she appears and Miss Velez is so quiet and so thin and so mournful that she is very seldom ccnvincing. In the very last sequénce, however, she is genuinely Fathetic—and you may cry your eyes out at her as all the ladies seem to be doing for rows around. On the stage this week may be seen that queen of boop-oop-adcop- ism, Helen Kane, who has augment- ed her squeals and her screams by a round dozen. Greeted with mild steria by the audience, she suc- cumbed to habit, gave the customary cat-calls and then lzunched forth on a song of a different nature which pleased the audience just as much. Others on the bill included Walter Wahl, Jack Sidney, the Four Gates Brothers—Addle Seaman, Mona Dob- son and Jean Spence—Nancy the Wonder Horse and Louis K. Sidney, M. C. de S. HER. Grainr Man Fatally Stricken. WINNIPEG, Manitoba, September 26 | (#).—William D. McBean, well known | | grain man, died at his home Thursday | |after a heart attack. He was 70 years | old. The Susquehanna 1430 W St N.W. 4. Rooms, Kitchen and Bath Reasonable Rental of the luzurious lobby, showing the exquisite surroundings in which you, as a resident of The Kennedy-Warren, may welcome your guests. The Kennedy-Warren Washington's outstanding residence. 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Physicians at first | feared, however, that the injuries of | Janice’ Williams, 14, might prove fatal. | After an operation she was mue¢h im- | proved, they said today. and probably | wili recover. ~ Billy Holder, 14, and Lawrence Weller and Ruth Daugherty, both under 14 years of age, were con- | sidered in a serious, but not a danger- ous_condition. Other buildings in Boston, including the Methodist Church, the Masonic Temple, and several homes, were un- roofed by the storm, and communica- tion lines were crippied in the vicinity. | The windstorm struck again in South- western Rush County, ~demolishing small buildings, unroofing several barns, damaging crops and slightly injuring Will Webster. | At Boston, the storm also damaged | the grade school building, a few feet | from " the high school. SWEPT TO SEA BY TOW, MAN FIGHTS TO SAFETY | By the Associated Press. 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