Evening Star Newspaper, November 7, 1931, Page 3

DAVIS WILL STUDY HAWAI'S FILIPNOS Islands’ Governor General Will View Labor Status on Way to U. S. By the Associated Press. MANILA, November 7.—Gov. Gen. Dwight F. Davis said today he intended to study the Filipino labor situation in Hawaii and California on_his way to Washington this month. He hopes to| sail November 21 on the limer President Lincoln or on the President Jefferson November 26. Gov. Gen. Davis recently received revorts from Gov. Judd of Hawali urg- ing that steps be taken in the Philip- pines to prevent unscrupulous brokers from sending independent groups of Filipino laborers to Hawail on false promises of employment. The Philip- ines Department of Commerce Bureau fi investigating activities of the brokers. Few Migrate to U. S. Only 63 Filipinos sailed for the United | Btates in October, while 273 returned to the islands. It was reported here that thousands of Filipinos are unem- ployed in Hawali and the United States. Accompanying the governor general will be his daughter Cynthia, who will go directly to Washington to join her sister Helen at a finishing school. The three plan to spend Christmas at their Bt. Louis home. Plan Reunion in Paris. Later they expect to sail to Paris to Join Mrs. Davis and another daughter, Alice, tor the first family reunion since Davis became governor general in July, 1929. Dwight Davis, jr., sailed Wednes- day for Paris. The governor general was silent con- feerning reports that he was not return- ing to the islands, but friends say he fwants to remain in the United States. Davis smiled at a rumor published in |, Manila papers that he was a likely choice of the Republicans for Vice President. NEW M. E. BUILDING NEARING COMPLETION Announcement Made to Offset Ru- mors U. S. Had Condemned First Structure. The new five-story apartment build- ing of the Methodist Board of Tem- perance, Prohibition and Public Morals, -djolnlnér:he present Methodist Build- ing at t street and Maryland ave- nue, is nearing completion, it was an- nounced to Methodist ministers throughout the country in the latest ‘!:ue of “The Voice,” board publica- n. ‘The announcement was made to off- #et rumors that the Federal Govern- ment had condemned the Methodist Building and that occupants of that building would move into the new structure. Considerable publicity was given more than six months ago to report the Methodist Building would be condemned for a Supreme Court ‘Building park. Dr. Clarence True Wil- son., general secretary of the board, reiterated today that this rumor is untrue The new building, located at 110 Maryland avenue, is faced with white stone end will contain 55 apartments. It is expected to be ready for occu- pancy December 1. Revenue from the building will be used toward paying off the indebted- ness incurred in its construction and as ll“l’ endowment for the Temperance Board. BEGINS SIXTH YEAR People’ Congregational Church marks this week the fifth anniversary of the tenure of its minister, Rev. A. F.'Elmes. Dean D. Butler Pratt of the School of Religion, Howard University, will it the anniversary sermon to- morrow at 11 o'clock, speaking from the topic, “Experiencing Religion.” Anniversary church night with a xchl fellowship feature will take place ursday at 8 o'clock. BROWN SENTENCED T0 DIE . Benjamin A. Brown, colored, yester- day was sentenced to die in the electric chair next February 19 for the murcer last March 21 of his wife Alice. Sen- tence was pronounced by Justice F. D. Letts in Criminal Division 2. It was the first death sentence im- posed by Justice Letts since his ap- pointment to the local bench. 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Stratford Players, “A Midsummer Night's Dream.” Stratford Players last night donned the mask of comedy and before the largest of their local audiences, an audience happily filled with large ps of youngsters, played Master Shakespeare'’s “A Midsummer Night's Dream.” And whether you thought Puck a trifie dark, or the word “moon” burlesqued over- much into “mon,” or the off -stage singing voice of the First Fairy a trifle uncertain, the whole was never- theless as pleas- ing a produc- tion of the bard’'s most comical bit of phantasy as di- vulged the local foot- lights. “Man s but Roy Bytord. an ass,” quoth Bottom, a Weaver, last night, and the audience roared. “Lord, what fools these mortals be,” quoth some kind of a fairy, and the audience again roared. In fact, what between the roars of the audience and the roars of the lion, there was enough noise to send the younger generation home in a haze of delight. Outstanding, of course, in this yarn of misplaced aff-ction and the disastrous effects that love potions have when lovers insist on running away from home and besporting themselves in the forest, is the “tragical’ comedy of Piramus and Thisbe. The most famous example of the Bard laughing up his sleeve at actors and other mortals, this un- controllable bit of burlesquerie is the surest known laugh fire which was produced in old Queen Bess' days. As pla] last night by these sturdy Stratford sons and daughters, it seemed funnier than it has ever seemed before. Roy Byford as the rotund Bottom uncomfortably sinking to the floor in the well known death paroxysm at the end of the Pyramus “trage- dy” is probably as comical a sight as the most precocious of the Marx Brothers antics. And, too, the ass's head with which Titania fell in love had more animal “it” to it (through the courtesy of revolving eyes and rotating jaws and the sudden jack- in-the-box actions of the ears) than many & human prototype. Recommended, too, among last night's sterling performers were Gyles Isham, a particularly smooth spoken and handsomely bedecked Oberon; the entire members of the “pnion” brethren, particularly ce the carpenter with blue-rib- ‘bon honors to Mr. (Byford) and the various sons and lovcrs who stead- fastly refused to get into the Shakespearean frenzy which so often takes the joy out of a hand- some production” of this kind. All good—except for the fairies, who were ladies far be}y‘vnd the width and heighth of such gossamer per- sonages. E. de 8. MELCHER. Helen Ha in “The !lll’:f‘ Madelon Claudet.” THE red-coated ballyhooers, who cry their wares at the doors of the cinema theaters this week, should stand in a line outside Loew’s Palace and chant one of father Shakespeare’s well known lyrics: found one of the most tear- ful of the cur- rent cinem sagas. “The Sin of Madelon Clau- det,” which in its grease-paint version and as performed by Florence Reed was called “The Lullaby,” has been built with an eye to the tear fonts, and as performed by “our own” Helen Hayes is a sterling example of how to make ladies cry. Nothing is left undone to ease the way to the use of the handkerchief, and we imagine that there has been no more genuine grief apparent over any film during the past five years. Miss Hayes, in her screen debut, is nothing short of magnificent. A lady who demonstrated the potency of her skill as a debutante tragedi- enne in “Couquette,” she proves in this that her skill is something completely beyond the usual require- ments of a screen heroine. Without attempting to capitelize her charms —except for a few fleeting mo- ments—she ranges the span of a woman's lifetime with a finesse that is amazing in a first venture. While, of course, it is apparent that every- thing has been done to make her the wistful, pathetic character she is meant to assume, there is no direc- tor on the face of this earth who can make her as good as she is. She is just Helen Hayes in a role which is so devastatingly tragic that you might as well resign yourself to an hour or more of such gloom as will make the lady next to you whoop, with grief. The story concerns the long, long fight of a young girl to make some- thing of herself in order to assist her son who has been born, as they say, out of wedlock, (remember “Madame X.”) The unpleasant sit- Helen Hayes, uations which develop, the submerg- ing of pride and apparently of char- acter all go to build toward an end- ing which is more dreadful than you are apt to suspect. It is all, how- ever, born splendidly on Miss Hayes’ graceful shoulders, and, while some may complain that she is unduly severe with her make-up, there is little question that she is striving for an art which goes far beyond the mere outlines of personal beauty. The cast in support of Miss Hayes contributes some first-rate perform- ances, notably Lewis Stone as a magnificent failure; Charles Win- ninger as_ an_ impatient photo- grapher; Cliff Edwards and Marie Prevost as_the farmer couple, and Jean Hersholt, who never fails to deliver a part with everything he has in him. The stage show called “Fantas- tique” is not so very much out of the ordinary, except for an earthy ballet danced by Anita Avila and a be-deviled chorus, some excellent top-hat juggling by Mr. Stetson and some humor which sometimes is and sometimes isn't by Mills, Kirk and Martin. E. de 5. MELCHER. “The Yellow Ticket” And Landi at the Fox. TEAVEL. back in the pre-Stalin days of Russia, was an impossible thing for the Semitic race. In order to get anywhere, be it on tram or cross-country subway, they had, literally speaking, to be the owner of a “Yellow Ticket.” This ticket, to put it bluntly, could be acquired only by becoming a lady of the streets, which was extremely disconcerting for many hundred millions who stayed at home and didn't pay ahy attention to the streets. In the film version of this once popular stage play, “The Yellow Ticket,” which opened yesterday be- fore crowds and crowds at the Fox, Elissa Landi plays the role of the good girl who goes “bad” (not really) in order to sneak across the Rus- sian prairies in search of her father, who has been ill in prison and who is, of course, nothing but a corpse by the time she gets to him. At the sight of his poulless body Miss Landi gives one of the most blood-curdling cries on record and goes into such tantrums of grief as to make the aisles shake with their intensity. There- upon Miss Landi vows revenge on the man who is responsible for all the tyrannical methods of man- handling humanity and starts upon a campaign which turns out asgwell s you had hoped it would. Lionel Barrymore, an actor who is seen far too infrequently on the screen, plays the role of the wicked butcher—a role which has much in common with Herr (“Tosca”) Scar- pia—and, delivering it in the best Barrymore manner, he succeeds in stealing much of the thunder of Miss Landi's performance. However, the latter for the first time really has something to work with—and she begins to climb the steps of success with a good boost for the first flight. Her characterization of the poor, yellow-ticketed girl, who falls in love with a clever press fellow (the right arm of the Consolidated Press), and, in order to win him, has to shoot Mr. Barrymore in the very center of his being, is an A-1 piece of work, although, as mentioned above, Mr. Barrymore is just so much better. Both do much to make this spas- medically interesting, although Di- rector Walsh has pechaps drawn it out beyond the proper program time. Incidentally, a newcomer to the screen, Laurence Olivier, is particu- larly natural in the role of the “lov- er,” although the ladies may say that his features aren't Gable enough. On the stage this week may be seen the Fox Band completely ob- literated behind yellow wigs and be- ing emusingly Dutch. The rest of the “Around the World” idea m- cludes phenomenal mind-readings by Harry and Frances Usher and inci- dentals by Nord and Jennie, Tex Morrisey and company in an animal act and various dancers, such as Phyllis Du Barry, Tommy Harris and the Daniels. E. de 8. M. “The Mad Genius” At the Metropolitan. JOHN BARRYMORE'S performance as “The Mad Genius,” at the Metropolitan for a second week, is a super-example of that gentleman working in the manner which he enjoys. most. ~While the halo of comedy is said to sit above his head at home, he prefers to be as agoniz- ing as possible before the camera and is rapidly assuming the hideous masks and deformities which the late Mr. Chaney used to advantage. In his present characterization he is a club-footed genius driven to de- spair by the insane desire to do a glorified Metropolitan ballet “hatcha” before an audiénce. Since, however, nature has burdened him with a grotesque and useless limb, he trans- fers his genius along these lines to the feet of a young boy whom he steers into the paths of dancing virtue At this point the story becomes another “Svengall,” and one may watch the sinister influence of the decaying genius envelope the boy and then disappear at the sight of a certain blush of love on the cheek of Marion Marsh. 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Not & cheerful theme—but to be enjoyed by those who are not tired of seeing one of this country's best actors be as wicked as anybody could be—and get away with it—al- most. E. de 8. M. Garbo and Gable In “Susan Lenox.” 'HE most serious “fad” which has hit this country since the ad- vent of Rudy Vallee (possibly, ex- cuse me, Bing Crosby) s the Garbo- Gable love team. These two high- powered cupids are said to have burst asunder every available record at Loew's Columbia Theater and to have dislodged the roof on “account” of sentimental sighs that have flown upward from satisfled customers. While the picture itself, “Susan Lenox,” may be something of a dis- appointment to the most ardent Garbo fans, it nevertheless presents this lady in her best hot and cold moments and steadily advances the boiling point of her popularity. Those who would improve on her method of catching a fish. or sighing for the square-rigged shoulders of her dark-eyed Lothario, had best betake themselves to the less decor- ous {ropics where probably only more excitable things occur. Miss Garbo is everything that you always hoped she would be—human as well as exotic—and she now forces you to believe that she is a normal crea- ture of flesh and blood, whose tal- ents far outstrip the mere coiffing of her hair or the flamboyant an- gles of her dress. Much, too, must be said for Mr. Gable His performance is smooth and masculine. He indulges neither in profilism nor in other normal traits of the overpopular matinee idol. While it is true that ladies prefer to miss their lunch hour for a glimpse of him, it is also true that Mr. Gable, whether he knows it or not, at least pretends to be comn- pletely oblivious of all the fuss he is stirring. You know the story: Garbo in pursuit of Gable. What more do you want? E. de 8. M. INJUNCTION AGAINST SALE OF HOME ASKED Charging that John D. Howflrd.nnd[ Charles S. Shreve, 1222 Connecticut avenue, as trustees under a deed of trust, were threatening to sell her home next Monday at public auction, Mrs. Gertrude Clark, 2703 Bladensburg road northeast, filed an injunction suit against them yesterday in the District Supreme Court. Mrs. Clark claims there is only $105 interest due and that she offered to pay this amount, but the trustees re- fused to accept it and advertised the propery for sale. Through Attorney Godfrey L. Mun- ter, she asked the court that the de- fendants be temporarily and perma- nently restrained from proceeding with the sale. Chief Justice Alfred A. Wheat ordered the defendants to appear in court Monday to show cause why the petition should not be granted. Will Rogers NORTH UVALDE, Tex.—Here T am in this beautiful little Western town. Flew in here from the King Ranch to spend the after- noon with a man you are going to hear more of in the next few months than any man in America, that's just plain Jack Garner, who will almost surely be the next Speaker of the great House of Representatives. I never did go in much for this typical American stuff, but this fel- low in his career and his home life will come pretty near living up to what we think one is. His only regret and this is no bull, either, in going back to Washington this time, is how he and his wife will miss Nick Longworth. He raises Texas’ famous soft-sheil pecans, He gave me some and I just found out what a soft-shell pecan is. It's one you can crack with just a small hammer. When I got here he was practicing with a gavel. £ ~ in a Community of Distinctive Homes & Three bed rooms; two baths Large living room; fircp_]arc Dining room; modern kitchen | 8-mile wind, while the Wheeler Ficld TAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, SATURDAY, NOVEMBEg . 193L. e DINNER IS PLANN=D ‘The Supervisors’ Association of Public Buildings and Public Parks of the Na- tional Capital is planning to give a din- | Department cafeteria, and & committee ner to Lieut. Col. U. 8. Grant, 3d, di- rector of that governmen tal-group, and % his staff of officers. A . A number of matters of interest were | E McShea, plumber, vice president, and at a meeting in the Interior [N. J. Cunningham of the cost account- secretary-treasurer. DG T0DETERHIE FLYER OF PACIFC Five Pilots to Let Chance Pick Man for Hop From Hawaii. ing section, By the Associated Press. SAN FRANCISCO, November 7.— Five aviators sailed yesterday for Honolulu on the liner President Cool- idge, planning to shake dice to decide which one should attempt to fly back aboard a monoplane safely stowed | away in the Coolidge’s hol | Heading the group was J. K. Althaus, former German war flyer. With him were H. S. Mead, W. S. Loudon, Tom Darby and Harry Forbes. Their plane | has & cruising radius of 3,500 miles. It is 2.400 miles between here and! ‘Honolulu. | Plane 20 Hours Crossing. “These four men have undertaken to gamble with me for the privilege of piloting the first plane from Hawali to the mainland,” said Capt. Von Al- thaus, who although he has been an | American citizen several years still speaks with a slight accent. “It will be a solo flight. We hope to complete it in Jess than 20 hours.” With a wind of 10 to 15 miles an hour, Von Althaus believes he can take off from Wheeler Ficld, 24 miles from Honolulu, the principal Army afrport in Hawail. 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