Evening Star Newspaper, October 5, 1931, Page 25

GERLEENEWORIL NEET PLANNE Eight-Day Conrention of | Foundation to Be Held at Stratford. By the Associated Press. | Virginians interested in restoration of | Stratford, Sirthplace of Robert E. Le’."‘ advised today of plans for the y annual meeting, starting next v at Fredericksburg of the Rob-| ert E. Lee Memorial Foundation. | A memorial service will be hzld Oc- tober 12, the sixty-first anniversary of he death of the Confederate leader with Francis Pendlcton Gaines, presi- | dent of Washington and Lee University, Maj. Giles B. Cooke, sole survivor of Gen. Lee's stafl, and officers of the foundation on the program. To Participate at Yorktown. The foundation also will participat:| in the Yorktown Sesquicentennial cele hration October 16. | " e announcement of the meeting, | #:5: Helen Knox, national finance cl an, advis>d Virginians here that | final payments on Stratford would be made “within a reasonably short time” and that plans for restoring the 1,100- acre estate as a national shrine are well advanced | Of the $240.000 purchase price for the property, $125.000 had been paid > the former owners, Miss Knox said. he United Daughters of the Con- 'ederacy national organization will pro- | vide an addition2] $50,000, leaving €65.000 to be raised. Contributions Total $190,943, | Contributions up to September 1, | including expenses of organization and | celebrations, totaled $190,943. Virginia | led the States i 7 Kentucky was second with $17,026. Other ~States wk totals _exceeded | $10,000 were Tenn $14,688; Mary- | land, ,616; Connecticut, §12,346; | District of Columbis, $10,817; Pennsyl- Rania, $19,206, and Delaware, $10,200. | The garden clubs of Virginia raised | $43,000, . . St. Denis or Dionysius, the patron saint of France, was the first Bishop of Paris and the most influential of el missionaries who during the third century carried the gospel of Chris- tianity into heathen Gaul. LOS ANGELES LEADER OF UNDERWORLD SHOT Augusto Sasso Is Critically Wound- ed by Unknown Assailant While Entering Home. By the Assoclated Press. LOS ANGELES, October 5.—Augusto Sasso, referred to in reports to the City Council and the police commission as ruler of the Los Angeles underworld, was shot and critically wounded by an unidentified assailant as he entered his home early today. “I've been put on the spot,” was Sasso's only remark. He refused to name the attackers. Sasso was shot through the chest and in the groin. He is the owner and operator of sev- eral rooming houses in the north end of the city and frequently he had been called “Albert Marco's successor as the ruler of Los Angeles’ underworld.” Marco, a former police character of Los Angeles, now in San Quentin Prison serving a sentence for assault, was as- soclated with Sasso. WILL DISCUSS WRITERS Prof. C. § Richardson to Address Readers’ Club Tomorrow. Prof. Charles S. Richardson will speak on “Some Modern Writers” at the first Fall meeting of the Washington Readers’ Club, to be held in the alliance room of All Souls’ Church tomorrow. ‘The program fhcludes readings from hat Brute Simmons” (Arthur Mor- rison) b} Penny That Beauty Spent” and “The Message and Jehanne” (Thornton Wilder) by Esther Waldron, selected poems of Edwin Arlington Robinson by | Anita Schade and a reading from ‘Marco's Millions” (Eugene O’'Neill) by Emily French Barnes. A one-act play, “Outwitted,” by Hafry L. Newton, fea- turing Lulu G. Adams and Leslie Waudby, will close the program. Dallas Airplane Plant Burns. DALLAS, Tex., October 5 (#).—Fire which originated in an adjoining hang- ar last night swept the Van Cleave Air- plane Works at Love Field, destroying seven airplanes. Firemen estimated the | damage at $35,000. The Van Cleave company aided in assembling the Spirit of Dallas, in which Capt. William Erwin, World War ace, attempted to span the Pacific. Er- win was last heard of in radio mes- sages_saying his plane was plunging into the ocean. Nettls May Burgess, “The | THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., MONDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1931. PICK BEST ACTING, FILMS AND DIRECTORS Motion Picture Academy Names Candidates for Cinema Honors for 1931. By the Associated Press. HOLLYWOOD, Calif., October 5.— Out of the many hundreds of motion pictures produced in the last year, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sclences today announced its selection of the five best performances by actors, actresses, directors, techniclans and producing companies. ‘The academy is composed of 700 leading figures of the film industry. From the five named in each group one will be selected November 10 to receive the final award. Nominees in the divisions follow: Best _performance, _actresses—Mar- lene Dietrich, in ‘Morocco”; Marie Dressler, in “Min and Bill”; Irene in “Cimarron”; Ann Harding. in P ; Norma Shearer, in “A Free Best performance, actors—Lionel Bar- rymore, in “A TFree Soul”; Jackie Cooper, in “Skippy”; Richard Dix, in “Cimarron”; Frederic March, in “The Royal Family”; Adolph Menjou, in “The Front Page.” Best, direction—Clarence Brown, “A Free ul"; Lewis Milestone, “The Front Page”; Wesley Ruggles, “Cimar- ron”; Josef Von'Sternberg, “Morocco”; Norma Taurog, “Skippy.” Pictures revealing the best pho- “Cimarron,” “Morocco,” to Love,” “Svengali,” “Tabu.” Best art direction went to “Cimar- ron,” “Just Imagine” “Morocco,” “Svengali” and ‘*“‘Whoopee.” Four studios were nominated for the best work in sound production. They were Metro - Goldwyn - Mayer, Paramount- Publix, Radio - Keith - Orpheum and Samuel Goldwyn-United Artists. 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