Evening Star Newspaper, September 30, 1932, Page 28

B—12 THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1932. SEEKS KEY T0 PAST OF BONUS MARCHER Aviation League Head Hunts Evidence Man Belonged to Lafayette Escadrille. By the Associated Press. CHARLOTTE, N. C, September 30 = A former member of the Iate Bonus Army. who was injured here on the march’ to Washington, Wednesday anxiously looked for the key to his past, | which he says is virtually a blank in his | memory, in communications being re- | ceived as a result of recent news stories | describing his plight. | He knows himself as A. C. Campbell | and believes he served as a member of | the famous Lafayette Escadrille during the war. His home, he thinks, was | originaily in Illinois. A letter was received here from Col. Charles W. Kerwood of Great Neck, N. Y. president of the Ligue Interna- tional Des Aviateurs i | “We are greatly interested in the in- formation that Andrew Courtney Camp- bell, jr., is alive, and. in Charlotte, and we will greatly appreciate any details | you can give us,” he wrote to the Char- jotte Observer. “The writer personally saw service with Camobell. ~Too. his parents of Evanston, Ill, will certainly welcome any news you may send the as will Maj. Georges Thenault, aer nautical attache to the French embassy From the Front Row Reviews and News of Washington's Theaters. Morton Downey To Do Two Pictures. HAT clear-voiced near-relation of the Barrymores, Morton Downey (he's Ethel's sister- in-law's brother-in-law—the husbdhd of Mrs. John Barrymore's sister—his wife being Barbara Ben- nett) will do two feature pictures, according to his advance press oracle, Mr. McDevitt, who travels around in the happy _pursuit of scattering such news. ‘While 1t seems the time has not come to an- nounce when and where these films wijl be, they are signed for already on the dotted line, and Mr. Dow- ney will join that mystical brotherhood _of radio stars, who, with nightly chanting via wave lengths, cook & fat turkey in the cinema as well. Mr. Downey, of course. does not starve even now. His weekly pittance of $4.500 is said to carry him along well enough as far as the simple things of life are concerned. But Morton Downesy. v Harold Lloyd Plans Sophisticated Comedy. E ARE sorry to learn—via the estimable Film Daily —that Harold Lloyd has announced that, “sensing a desire on the part of the public for more sophisticated comedy, he intends to build his next picture along these lines, from the standpoint of both story and gags.” Thus, sudden- 1y, pie- throw- { ing. custard- heaving com- edies are at an | end. For Mr. Lloyd, the last of the West Coast come- dians_to grow has thus remained true to his early loves, and made picture after z picture with Harold Lioyd. childlike, innoc- uous, often in- sane gags—relying on everything but sophistication. Now that he plans to go Noel-Coward on us, some sort of & danger flag should be hoisted. Strangely enough, Mr. Lloyd's most_recent picture, “Movie Crazy.” which has been shown in practically every civilized community of the East, has not been brought to | ‘Washington. Washingtonians, there- fore, do not realize what antique nonsense is stored up in this, and how pleasantly reminiscent Mr. Lloyd is of his old and best self. Although some of the picture is over-farcical farce, it is surprising to find what humor there may still be found in such scenes as are de- vised by pulling rabbits out of dow- agers bacfls‘ eggs out of sleeves and throwing nicely shatterable plates at nicely shatterable people. This film is & nostalgic epic of the days when custard pies were usable if unfashionable missiles, and Mack Sennett bathing beau- ties bathed themselves in woolen bathing garments in waters now gazed at only tolerantly by bejew- eled Malibu hermits. *“Movie Crazy™ is not perhaps the best of current comedies. But it is the sort of thing that will tickle children, and not make mother's blush at the thought of their little ones being there. While it is sometimes not funny, and sometimes too silly to be comfortable, it is on the whole the kind of tortoise-shell humor which has carried Harold Lloyd along, lo these many years, as & household clown. We shudder at the thought of a sophisticated Harold Lloyd. Just as that super showman, Florenz Ziegfeld, held out to the last against the intrusion of the “new” humor, so there should be one ven- erable and venerated clown—other than Charlot, the estimable Charlie Chaplin—who supplies the much neglected art of 1915 roughhousing. Comedy, as an art, has done many about-faces in the past few years. It is a tragic but true fact that people no longer laugh at the passage of culinary materials through the air. With the sudden decline of “Fatty” Arbuckle many vears ago, the pie, for instance, other than for family digestion, be- came a sadly neglected quantity. ‘Then, too, people didn't know how to throw them, or others how to re- celve them. So that at the moment the current generation knows little of a once highly popular pastime. Mr. Lloyd, however, has kept up fairly well with past days, and never allowed too much of the mod- ern to creep into his maneuverings. And he has—up until now—been re- warded with an enormous conclave of admirers. The success of his re- cent “Movie Crazy” confirms this. Why, then, does he suddenly re- nounce the past and take up the standard of sophistication? Mr. Lloyd is a nice young man with glasses. He acts a pleasant kind of a pastoral buffoon. He is apt to be his funniest when he is trying the least. He has been a great asset to the screen as a whole- some, toothy, embarrassed comedian. There is no reason in the world why he should want to be other- wise, E. de 8. MELCHER. HELD ON CHECK CHARGE Suspect Accused of Giving Worth. ‘ less Paper for Auto. | 3. G Landers, block liquor HELD ON RUM CHARGE Suspect Bound Over for Alleged Transportation. Charged with transportation of 400 quarts of liquor, alias Milton €onlly, 30, of the first Milton D. Reeves, of New York avenue, was bound over to the grand jury under | bond of $1,000 by Police Court Judge | Gus A. Schuldt yesterday. not gullty. | Police said they obtained the liquor | from a car which Reeves was driving when they stopped it at Eleventh and | Irving streets. Previously they said they | saw him attempting to unload some of the cargo from the car several blocks | from the place. | Police said Reeves told them he was hired by an unknown man to haul the He pleaded | | to a house on Irving street from | a place in the 5600 block of Georgia avenue for $5 a load. ALL STATES MEETING Matters of Interest to Residents of | Washington Will Be Discussed. J | Questions which bear on the interests | 1400 block of N of citizens of the States who are resi- | | street, arraigned in Police Court yes- |dents of Washington are to be discussed v |at a meeting of the All-States Officers’ |terday on a charge of giving a $400 bad | 5 L o¢CME ¥ o rd " Hotel Monday | check in payment for an automobile, was held for grand jury action under | $2,500 bond. and waived preliminary hearing. » | night. Among the matters to be taken up He pleaded not guilty |are the amusement tax as applied to | meetings of State socicLies, the economy Employes of an automobile firm in |law and its effect on social activities, | |the 1500 block of Fourteenth street | procurement of a uniform voters’ law, |said that Landers gave the company lg‘remer co-operation for the benefit of | Experienced Advertisers PreferTheStar the check early in June in payment for the car. | arrested. He drove the machine | away at that time, and was recenfly‘ the individual society, Committee on an Emblem for the so- clety and formulation of a program of activities for the year. report of the The “Joan” $8.50 'HIS handsome oxford expresses that smart distinction that i the desire of every woman. Fashioned of black or brown suede with woven lacings and priced at $8.50 “Richmode” silk hose, 75c & S$100 pair New “Kantrun” hose, §1.35 pair; 3 pairs, §4 ICH F ST. At TENTH his advent into films will not only bring him back once more where at one time he was doing “plenty” well, but should be of even greater interest to his vast unseen audience now that that certain tobacco “weed"” quarter- hour has carried him to such phe- nomenal heights. Do_vou know that back in 1925 Mr. Downey set at Poli's Theater. and under the baton of Paul White- man, pretended to blow a French horn? ~ Also that this morning he arrived in town with something of a flourish and extended a_handsome breakfast party to a number of the press gentry? ~ And that he is sing- ing all this week at Loew's Fox? (Not pronounced Lo-eee’s). in Washington, who was the O. C. of | the Lafayette Escadrille.” The man here said he believed his name was Arthur instead of Andrew He said Mayor Charles E. Lambeth | told him a letter had been received from Mrs. Alfred Campbell Bagby of Baltimore, but he had not been in- formed of its contents. Mrs. Bagh,\"s‘ name was not familiar to him, he added. | Campbell hurt an ankle here while with a contingent of bonus marchers from California, and has been here since that time. Efforts to communicate with the Evanston address given by Col. Kerwood have brought no reply. TWO CAMPBELLS KNOWN. | WooDWARD & LLOTHROP 10™ 11™ F aAND G STREETS Were in Escadrille During War, Says | French Attache. | Maj. Georges Thenault, aeronautical attache of the French (’l’nbfl&<_\'(.j said yesterday that the A. Courtney Camp- : o bell who served in the famous Lafayette | J3TeS Cagney, has made up his dit; escadrille during the World War was FeOres With thet concern and will killed in action. French air service | 0 SAFed mnnst 'mmediately t Tecords, he said, showed that Campbell | {OMething célled " Bad Boy/—which gave Chicago as his home address. 3t fssalil P &s, There was another Campbell in the : . escadrille, Maj. Thenault said, who gave |« . & ight the foot ball teams from his nameas H. Jordan Campbell and his | Geotzetoun’ University and. Mount home in_Colorado. St. Mary's College will be the guests Maj. Thenault said he remembered | S SAIVE Colicge WUL he the guests A, Courtney Campbell “very well”| Pt CILY Mamager C Campbell's plane crashed, he pointed - out. after losing both wings Neither the Police Department nor | the United States attorney's office has | any record of an A. C. Campbell having been in Washington during the encamp- | ment of the bonus army. Riots Mark Demonstration. Riots during the annual demonstra- tion of the Ancient Order of Hibernians | at Blantyre, Scotland, caused 11 ar- | rests. Ten special trains carried 7,000 members from all parts of Scotland. Here at a New Low Price— New 1933 Model Rowing Machines with these added features —three adjustable springs —noiseless sliding seat Bering the procestions theve were stv: | Motorists . . . 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