Evening Star Newspaper, February 9, 1932, Page 7

SCHOOLS BECKON JOBLESS YOUTHS Supt. Ballou Names Two Committees to Carry Out League Program. An aggressive campaign for the re- turn to school of jobless youths under 18 has been launched by the District League of Woman Voters, the plan is in line with the program of the Presi- dent's Organization on Unemployment Relief. Dr. Frank W. Ballou, school super- intendent, has appointed two com- mittees to carry out the plans outlined by the league. The Central Committee, headed by Allan Davis, includes F. A. Woodward, R. W. Strawbridge, F. C. Daniel, G. D. Houston and J. G. Logan Working with this group is the Con- sultant Committee of which Charles Hart is chairman and Miss Jessie La- Salle, Dr. H. A. Smith, H. A. Haynes and C. C. McDuffie are members. Closely co-operating in the campaign are Mrs. Clara M. Beyer and Mrs. Cloyd Heck Marvin, chairmen, respec- tively, of the league's committees on ‘welfare and education. SURROGATE STUDIES WENDEL CASE PLEA Reserves Decision on Motion to| Revoke Temporary Letters of Administration. By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK., February 9.—Decision was reserved yesterday by Surrogate John O'Brien on a motion that tempor- ary letter of administration granted *o three administrators of the vast Wen- del estate be revoked. The motion was made by Arthur Garfield Hays, counsel for dozens of claimants throughout the country who seek a share of the fortune which Miss | Ella Wendel, last of the famous New York family. left principally to charity | when she died last year. | One of the points on which Hays | based his argument was that Rosa Dew | Stansb of Vicksburg, Miss, who | claims _relatiogship to the Wendels, | was induced by attorneys for the estate to sign, without understanding it, an agreement she would not contest the probating of the will. She received | $1.000 in cash and a promise of $24,000 later, Hays said. Police Chief Recovers. HYATTSVILLE, Md. February 9| (Special).—Chief of Police Albert An- | Gerson returned to duty yesterday after | an operation and an attack of pleurisy | that kept him laid up more than a| month. | The Netherland government is oper- ating four large coal mines. From the THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, Front Row Reviews and News of Washington's Theaters. ‘Walter Hampden As Cyrano de Bergerac. YRANO de BERGERAC was dying. The Gascon char- acter with the gargantuan nose regarded himself a failure as soldier, poet and lover. “I have missed everything,” he said. No one in the crowded National Theater last night could say that. Nor can anyone who may see Walter Hampden inter- pret Rostand's “Cyrano de Bergerac” dur- ing its remain- ing three per- formances here. B It is a factual dramatic ex- perience — a master drama portrayed by a master actor, & role so created that _Coquelin and Mansfield might be happy to welcome it in some thespian heaven for Cyranos. “Cyrano de Bergerac” is a drama of defeat, gloriously faced with un- selfishne: Walter Hampden be- comes the Gascon of old. The swing of his hands, a sort of mili- tary snap to his eyes, his shoulders —they were all Cyrano—there was little of Walter Hampden left. The role requires a skillful use of voice and eyes. But with the great nasal appendage about which the great warrior is so sensitive, it is difficult to win admiration from an audience. The player's contact must through his character—a difficult assignment for any actor, but one handled with rare skill by Mr. Hampden. ‘The familiar plot concerns the large nosed guardsman who fights, makes love, and writes poetry for the profit of others, retaining for himself only and always his love of gesture and his white plume of pride. Anyone whose step is ever quick must thrill to the startling exploits of this Caesar of the rapicr. Before the first act is minutes old, Cyrano has slain a nobleman with his sword as he composes a ballad on his victim's hypocrisies. That is romance—but romance that lives and breathes through decades to follow when the realisms of the mo- ment fall by the wa The naivete of rano” doubt- will be hard for realists to They fear the character s greater than life—the per- son one might yearn to be.: But there is so much of Cvrano in eve one. Only in a Baron Munch memoir., or a fizment of Rostand’s imagination, would there b a blend- ing of personalities to make a per- fect man. ‘Washington has never seen finer acting than that of Mr. Hampden in the third and in the last acts of “Cyrano” last night. The balcony scene is wonderfully portrayed. As Christian, Cyrano's rival, climbs aloft for the s of Roxane that Cyrano's words have won, the humbled warrior embraces the door- Walter Hampden. e frame in the shadows. Every line of him—fingers, head, shoulders— connotes the crushed man. Who could, in sincerity, help but thrill to a man who would give up the woman he loved, if by helping his rival he might make her happy. The death scene is remarkably realistic— even more vividly illustrating Mr. Hampden’s dramatic power through use of significance of detail in act- ing g. The play is all Walter Hampden. It is well that it is so, for Mr. Hampden affords real interpretation in a dramatic world surfeited with sophisticated poseurs. He is one of the few living stage artists who with his eyes and hands can utter the words—in _true Cyrano fashion. One sad thing remains after see- ing this play. One is too suddenly flicked from a wonderful world of swordpoints and Walter Hampden to one of blaring automobile horns and women that talk of hats, at- tendants at the play who feel ashamed that they felt like crying. It should be easy therefore to un- derstand why there was one man in the audience who ceme.1,200 miles to_see that play. Besides Mr. Hampden, especial credit should go to Whitford Kane for his portrayal of Ragueneau, to Reynolds Evans as the Comte de Guiche, to C. Norman Hammond as the guardsman captain, and to Katharine Warren as Rnx%l;e. Fred Stone’s Show At the Shubert-Belasco. FRED STONE'S most notable con- tribution to “Smiling Faces,” his new musical offering at the Belasco, is a banana with a zipper. This eloguent Ed Wynnian concep- tion, which speaks for itself, is the humorous boiling point of & show which unfortunately is not up to the ex-past master of “The Wizard of Oz.” Mr. Stone’s show Is spot- less, neatly tuned and elaborately mounted, but its book is vine-clad Victorian and its sequences redolent of an age when a musical comedy script just didn’t matter anyway. The trouble, of course, is that there isn't enough Fred Stone. Apart_from taking a gentle dig at himself by falling out of a stage aeroplane, which never gets off the ground (“How high up was I when 1 fell ouf says Mr. Stone), and a “Bootblack Blues” number, at the end of the second act, this genial entertainer is very little in evidence. He leaves, in fact, most of the show in the hands of a sluggish book and to players, some of whom are mnot as_topnotch as they should be. The second act, fortunately, covers up some of the shortcomings of the b7 Present in this is Miss Doris Patston, who, coming on as some kind of a human ray of light toward the end, bolsters up the whole by singing “Something to ‘Think About” and by becoming sud- denly the pleasantest performer of the lot. At this point, too, Mr. Roy Roysten. who had been bouncing around like a misplaced rubber ball, sudderly begins to quiet down and proves himsclf an excellent singer | and a dancer worth watching. The “plot” up until then had | been replete with movie actors Yes—Bargains! That is the only word which truly and adequately describes the opportunities offered in our Semi-annual Clearance Sale. 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In epite, however, of these lithe- some and rollicking Raschers and the nimble dancing of Miss Paula Stone and, of course, the music, which is pleasantly nostalgic, there are many momenis when you just can’t help wondering “why.” ‘Mr. Stone still has all his familiar tricks with him and does those neat little “gags” with that joyousness of which his admirers are so fond—but he is too infrequently at hand to be able to encourage the show with his own inimitable vim and vigor. A disappointment, as far as te cast is concerned, is that Billy Taylor, who promised to be so amusing in the last Stone show, now suddenly transplanted to the level of “leading man” is no longer droll—in fact, last night he seemed just a little bored with the proceedings. E. de 5. MELCHER. PLAN WELFARE MEETING Special Dispatch to The Star. HYATTSVILLE, Md., February 9.—A meeting of welfare workers of Prince Georges County and others interested will be held tonight in the office on Rhode Island avenue here of the Asso- clated Charitles of Hyattsville and vicinity. The meeting, called for 8 o'clock, 1s to discuss with Raymond W. Bellamy, State director of employment for Mary- land, plans for making the registration | of unemployed of this county as suc- | cessful as possible. Around,200 jobless many of them skilled workers, have |he came as a civil employe to the War | notes of the old sizes— Two years later he trans- | bank by a depositor. After the first | don, cashier, registered at the Associated Charities office, where Kenneth A. McRae, of the | Man Who Runs Treasury MR. THOMPSON KNOWS WHEN TO SAY “NO.” By the Assoctated Press. Ogden L. Mills, who in a day or so will be Secretary of the Treasury, called attention the other day to & man peo- ple should know more about. , Mills wanted to give assurance Treas- ury policies would not change with the departure of Secretary Mellon, so he said: “Why, Mr. Thompson won't let me change anything if I wanted to!” Mr. Thompson is one of the men who keep the Government going when poli- tical upheavals shake out all the old officials and put in greenhorns. He is the man who knows just about all there is to know about the Treasury, who re- calls every precedent, who says “No!” each time a newcomer proposes some- thing that conflicts with past decision or law. W. Norman Thompson is his name; | executive assistant to the Undersecre- tary of the Treasury is his title. He has been there 22 years, Presidents and five secretaries. initiated a long string of undersecre- taries to their duties. He is one of a small band of career men who are not touched by administration changes. Thompson ranks among the out- standing ones, both through his own conspicuous ability and the importance of his office. The Undersecretary in the Treasury direc 5 its operations, formulates fits fiscal policy and in every way relieves the Secretary of routine. Thompson is a slight-bullt man, not conspicuous, always calm. No matter what is on you can’t ruffie him. Once before Mills said: “You can't say too much good about him.” Treasury employes all agree. For, not included in his duties, he is guide, philosopher and friend to all of them. He is from Newark, N. J. In 1907 Department. ferred to the Treasury. under six | He has | W. NORMAN THOMPSON. |STACK OF MUSTY BILLS IS BACK IN CIRCULATION | Cashier of Arkansas Bank Says Con- | dition Indicates Money Was Buried Long Time. By the Associated Press. PINE BLUFF, Ark, February 9.—A stack of musty bills—$2,900 worth— came out of an underground hiding place and went back into circulation here yesterday. 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