Evening Star Newspaper, September 29, 1932, Page 29

R 29, 1932. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, Com) represented by the new cor- poration have until December 15 to :maly with the terms of the new of- er. ‘The American Gas & Power Corpora- tion supplies gas and for com- munities in more than 20 States in New m‘lll“nd. the Middie West and the e STOCK DEAL APPROVED New Corporation Gets Option for Repurchase of Securities. WILMINGTON, Del, September 29 (#).—Conveyance to a new corporation of an lon for the repurchase of the stock of the American Gas & Power Hyattsville of this week. great month wl& not l;mly bfi’d:u & the showing such excellent pictures as “Bird of Paradise,” “ i “Love Me Tonight,” “Horse Feath- ers,” k Easily” and others, but to the fact that Mr. Lust is acting as a sort of Santa Claus and re- ducing the prices to a comfortable minimum. PASTOR DENOUNCES WOODCOCK'S PROBE From the Front Row Reviews and News of Washington's Theaters. His Dry Enforcement Inquiry in Kansas Is Called “Com- plete Flop.” By the Associated Press. HUTCHINSON, Kans., September 29. —Amos W. W. Woodcock, director of | prohibition, late yesterday completed a hearing here into enforcement work in Kansas, and Rev. W. C. Templeton of Dodge City, Kans., one of the witnesses, termed it “a complete flop.” Mr. Templeton and others had pro- tested Woodcock’s suspensions of Brice Armstrong and John Madden, special investigators, testifying the work of the two had been hampered by unwar- ranted interference of district head- quarters in Kansas City. | After the hearing Woodcock held an- other in private for Armstrong, accused with Madden of refusing to obey orders to report to the Kansas City office. Rev. J. N. Manninga of Wichita, as & witness, accused George Wark, admin- istrator of the Missouri-Kansas-Okla- homa-Arkansas district, and H. L. Dun- | can, chief special agent, of “gross in- | competency.” Previously Mr. Templeton expressed belief law enforcement in the district was “virtually impossible and useless” under Wark, Duncan and Sardius M. Brewster, United States district attor- ney. ‘Woodcock asserted the Prohibition Bureau “has improved a tremendous lot | “A Bill of Divorcement,” With John Barrymore, at Keith's. P BILL OF DIVORCEMENT,” which had a two-day- ahead - of - time open! yesterday at R-K. Kelth, is an unusually ef- fective film done in the best el Baurymore by John Barrymore, bringing to the screen once more Billie Burke, and evoking the new and extraordi- narily exciting resence of one atherine Hep- burn. This young and ex- tremelyunhand- some lady is one of the most sat- isfying person- alities the screen has unearthed this season. Miss Hepburn is tall and gaunt and lean. She swings her arms a Joen Crawford mask. ‘When she smiles you are unusually cheered. Whe her mouth droo) at the corners, you know that the fight is over with. She acts in this, her first screen appearance, with all the assurance of a Garbo, and all the pathos of a Cornell. She is too young to be as effective by half es either. But she has a kind of brutal way of tearing you to ribbons—and you instinctively feel in the finale of the picture, when she is sitting at *he piano with John Katherine Hiepturn. The complications which arise at this unexpected intrusion of a sup- y insane man into a home which had learned to do without him for 15 years, makes this a moving and compelling drama. It is worth its weight in gold— due to the performance of John Barrymore, who refrained from his usual eyebrow twistings—and Miss Hepburn—and one or two others— among whom, alas, Miss Burke may not be included. E. de 5. MELCHER. Gracie Barrie, Blues Singer, Held Over at Warner’s Earle. ISS GRACIE BARRIE, a young lady who stepped out modestly before the Earle curtain last Friday, after a Maxine Doyle invocation, and sang her “numbers” in a nice, healthy, unaffected manner, has been rewarded for her success by being asked to stay over for a sec- ond week at the Earle. This un- usual compliment, due to the way in which Miss Barrie has five times daily stopped the show, was given to this handsome, talented and de- mure young lady by the manage- ment of this theater—by means of taking a next week’s Philadelphia contract and ripping it quietly to bits. Miss Barrie thereby becomes a sensation overnight—since no such honor has been bestowed thusly since befcre the flood or before the Earle came into existence. Another one of those “Greater Movie months,” and this a really greater one, supplied by the Sidney Lust interests, will be sponscred out Phil Lampkin. Loew’s Fox Orches- tra chief, whose baton has evoked much fine music out of the alr, will rrnem. the Franz von Suppe “Morn- , Noon and Night in Vienna” as a special overture, starting with the Morton Downey avalanche this Fri- day. Mr. Lampkin has presented this work in the Academy of Music, New York, and in such prominent cinema pavilions as the Paramount, Los Angeles; Fox Theater, Detroit, and the Granada Theater, San Prancisco. According to Russel Crouse, sage press prohpet for the Theater Guild forces, which soon are presenting here Pearl Buck's splendid “The Good Earth,” Alla Nazimova learned English in threz months. The first thing she could say was, “I got you, Steve——," which, it is said, has nothing whatsoever to do with Mr. Steve Cochran of National Theater and Lake Hopatcong l‘gwé 3-Pc. Suites Made New for Guaranteed Workmanship. ration was authorized by _Chancellor Josiah O. Wolcott. The stock was sold by the receiver an: for the latter concern last Ji Entertaining DOROTHY SKINNER VINCI ard YOUNG RHYTHM TRIO and Others SOUVENIRS and SPECIAL PRIZES Tre (HOREHAM has been speeded by the of h and radio Production in some English factories introduction concerts for This Saturday Evening From 7 till 1 Featuring Barnee and His Riviera Orchestra Masim Lowe Musle AAAAA to EEE SIZES | to 12 [S e Spectal dinner. 12, starting ot .yWMMIOWMMMmm maxpwivefid S, I NORMAL SHOE CO.. Inec. e whtnovs harpe Home of Enna Jettick Shoes for Womes 1337 <“F° STREET, N. W. CONNECTICUT AVE. af CALVERT Barrymore, that she is unquestion- PHONE ROBERT KEHL FOR RESERVATIONS CAdams 0700 ably a match for him. Few actresses of the younger school can stand up this way with a Barrymore. You don't feel that in the last two years” and repeated that he was responsible for the sus- pension orders of Madden and Arm- strong. “You gentlemen,” he said, “go to Washington and to Vice President Cur- | he is “stealing” a scene when she tis and say that things are not right. | is around. When they are together I have come out here to find out what | it {5 absolutely a half-and-half is wrong with the department. I can-| affair. Neither is getting the bet- not investigate Mr. Brewster. I cannot| ter of the other, as, for instance, break down discipline of a large de- | partment to please a small group.” England Likes U. S. Teachers. So successful has been the exchange of instructors between Oxford and American universities that it is being urged in England that other universi- ties and colleges adopt the plan. While en American is teaching at Oxford, an English instructor is doing the same in one of the schools in the United States. ! 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