Evening Star Newspaper, January 9, 1933, Page 20

" B4 HUGHES TOSPEAK ATBUST UNVELING Donor of Memorial to Gen.‘ ‘). E. Johnston in Virginia House to Speak. BY the Associated Press, ‘RICHMOND, Va. January 9.—Rob- | ett M. Hughes of Norfolk, member of the State Board of Education and a cdllateral descendant of the Confeder- ate general, was announced today as the pfincipal speaker at ceremonies Febru- aty 3 at the unveiling of the bust of Gen. Joseph E. Johnston in the old hall of the House of Delegates. Mr. Hughes is the donor of the bust, the dourth of the series of 12 memorial- izing famous Virginians to be erected in the old hall The fifth of the 12 authorized to be ageepted by the Governor under an act of the 1932 General Assembly, that of. Cyrus Hall McCormick, the great inventor, will be dedicated at exercises in March The bust of George Mason was the fizst to be. received and formally dedi- cated. It was the gift of Mrs. Eliza- beth Mason Lloyd. The Patrick Henry bust, recently unveiled, was the gift of John H. Miller; the Matthew Fontaine Maury bust a gift of Mrs. James Par- malee. | Busts authorized under the act to be agtepted which have not yet been do- nated are Stonewall Jackson, George Rogers Clark, George Wythe, Richard Henry Lee, Edmund Pendleton, Sam Houston, Meriwether Lewis and Andrew Lewis. NEW “OIL BOOMS” | $BLACKWELL, Okla., January 9 (A ~=Blackwell is having a rapid succes- sfon of “oil boom: First came the ‘Por man’s field” which “produced™ oline at a depth of a few feet. Oil n sald the gasoline apparently was | page from a pipe line leak. Satur- | ¥ - brought discovery of a petroleum | L in 18 inches of sand at a depth 23 {feet. | me oil men expressed belief the came from the Hubbard field and s forced up by water. #The gasoline “field” has 37 post hole ells” and they produced 371 barrels of motor fuel Saturday. { THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, D. C., MONDAY. JANT From the Front Row Reviews anvaews of Washington's Theaters. Zasu Pitts Comedy Now Playing at Rialto, HEY JUST HAD TO GET 6« MARRIED,” the new Zasu Pitts - Slim Summerville comedy at the Rialto, has a hilarious opening, 15 minutes of which are worth see- ing in spite of the peetering out of the rest. In this Miss Pitts and Mr. Summerville and Roland Young and some of the others “go O'Neill” They speak their thoughts, and then they shut their mouths, and the words go along much in the manner of the morose “Strange_Inter- lude.” ~ Purther than taat, as Miss Pitts, dressed as a bride, comes up the aisle to be wed to the anx- jous Mr. Sum- merville, she has further thoughts, which do not gibe with her actions—and further foolishness which provoke —unre- strained Jaughter up until a hunting sequence—after which the picture goes suddenly to pieces. Those first few minutes, however, to those who are &s fond of their Pitts as we are as amusing as anything that has come out of the cinema this season. It scems too bad that thereafter, with such an excellent cast, the material should suddenly give up its ghost and scrape along in the manner popular with second-rate comedies of a decade ago. Miss Pitts is too good to be wasted on such trivialities, as are Roland Young and the others—and after such a good head start it scems a near-tragedy to keep them on the lot, prancing around with nothing to their credit. Nevertheless, Miss Pitts' pre and post-marriage fever, her actions after she learns that she (as a waitress) has inherited her former master's fortune, and that she can be mar- ried in much comfort to Butler Slim Summerville and live in a style which she had dreamed of and read about only in books, is something to sec. Zasu Pitts. E. de 8. M. ' “The Sign of the Cross” | Opens at the National. . | J T.isa long while since Cecil B. De Mille has been allowed free play with Roman bathtubs, chariots, animals, foods and | “orgies.” In the past few years | he has had to content himself with the private palaver of the day, and has had little opportunity to present those yards of slimly clad players. those tons of grapes and grapeseeds, those comfort- ably lolling dinner parties, those fires and riots and chew- ings of mortals by animals which he has always been so fond of. “The Sign of the Cross,” which is now playing at the National, finds him back in these palmy days. Or rather in a mood that used to be palmy. This current filming of the old and an- cient Wilson Barrett play is full of 7,500 people, full of riots and chew- ing and beatings and eating, and those other things so dear to the De Mille heart. Although you may find Nero's timid plucking of the harp- strings a_ disappointment, after visualizing him as sawing away on a Stradivarious while Rome burns, or the tortures which are inflicted on the Christians somewhat tame since they are performed for the most part out of sight, you will have to admit that the Empress Poppea soaping herself in a monstrous vat of asses’ milk, is as exciting as you had anticipated, and that the lady Claudette Colbert performs this with rare charm and an amazing knowl- edge of how to make the most out of a positive fleet of “spit curls.” However big and sumptuous and De Millian this picture may be, it is too clumsy to be convincing and too theatric to be at all realistic. The players do what they can with awkward lines, but go about curious- ly divorced one from the other in the manner of speech, with Nero and the Christian girl speaking Trafalgar Square British, Marcus speaking Boston brogue, Poppea speaking with & vague Prench hint Elisa Landi. 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In white, pink, and blue— daintily trimmed..78c A special group of Handmade Dresses that would regularly be much higher priced. Exquisitely made— with rows and rows of tucks, drawn threads, and scalloped trim, $1 Hand-knit Sacques in white with pink or blue trim A Complete Line of Infants’ Vanta Shirts —priced at 50c¢, 75c¢, §1 Warm Bootees, 25¢ and 50c Complete Line of Kleinert and Rand Rubber Goods in her lines, and some of the others speaking pure Brooklyn Bridge. The result, is helter skelter enter- tainment, with the best part devoted to the “orgies,” and in spite of the prologue and epilogue and the climax and tho moral of the whole thing, vice winning by a good nose over virtue, This, of course, was not intended. The martyrdom of the Christians was meant to be presented in the light of & colossal tragedy, with the faintest ‘smattering of a love affair, and the wickedness of the Roman Caesars coming in as a relief. Mr. De Mille, however, unable to keep away from his tubs and crowds and unchaste exhibitions of revelry, leans so far the other war—that try as he may he does not get back. Elissa Landi, as Mercia, gives her- self more convincingly than any one to her role; Charles Laughton is a soggy and rotund Nero; Claudette Colbert simpers and grins through her wily maneuverings, and Frederic March is handsome and curly-headed and becomingly draped in various armor and does all he can as the wicked Marcus who walks into a lion’s mouth, arm and arm with his beloved. E. do S. MELCHER. Sinbad the S Presented by Marionettes. “]DADDY, they are alive What greater tribute to the genius of Tony Sarg and to the artists who pull the strings and give voice to this delightful marioneties than this? Your reviewer took his two small sons to see “The Further Adven- tures of Sinbad the Sailor” as portrayed by Mr. Sarg's amazing puppets at the Masonic Auditorium on Saturday and wes greeted with the quoted comment as soon as the curtain had parted on the first en- chanting scene. Indecd, to the hundreds of chil- dren in the audience the marionettes were alive. Nor did it require drawing upon much imagination by parents and grown-up spectators to share in their belief, so perfect was the art of the skilled manipulators behind the scenes in creating the | illusion. Every action of the animat was follow actually 1 the shipwrecked fellow mariner lifted his glinting dagg. to stab the unsuspecting Sinbad. there were bated breaths in the audience. Chil- dren clapped their hands when the 6 Stregt I at 1tk Wool little old man of the sea leaped over the princess' garden wall just in time to save Sinbad from capture by the King. And when, in the end, Sinbad and the fair one were re- united after a series of harrowing misadventures, there was genuine rejoicing on the part of the youthful spectators. In presenting this well-known tale from the Arabian Nights, Charles Searle, who prepared the dramatiza- tion and who also is gne of the five umseen manipulators, carries the richly costumed marionettes through a complete sequence of 13 scenes in an artistically staged setting of Oriental fantasy. Among the more skillful feats of the artists who pull the strings is the performance of “Ajeeb” (Sin- bad's servant) who does magic tricks and juggling before the sultan, and the two slaves who lift up a chest and carry it off, slung beneath a pole, while the gestures and expres- sions of the marionettes never cease to cause wonder throughout the play. Aiding Mr. Searle behind the are Rhys Willlams, Elvira . Elise Dvorak and David Prichard. Richard Williams, music director, plays the piano accompani- ment during the performance. Tony Sarg’s Marionettes will be back in Washington in “Captain Kidd and His Jolly Pirates” on Jan- uary 21, and again on February 4, when Mr. Sarg puts in a personal appearance. H. G. “Humming Honnies” Has Good Songs and Dances. W/ITH a select group of songs and dances, plus some good come- dy, “Humming Honnies"” opened yes- terday at the Gayety for a week’ run. Georgia Sothern, with her fast moving dances, again shows to ad- vantage in her fe appearances, and two new attractions, Gladys Smith and Violet Jordan. add to the program. Miss Smith has a good selection of songs, and this, com- bined with her dancing, gives the patrons all that they want. Violet Jordan lends a helping hand by her effective singing, besides doing her specialties. Mae Dix is seen in several funny scenes with Sam Raynor. This pair well together, and Mae espe- cially draws the laughs in her some- The comedy is again furnished by Raynor, Davis and Hickman. Ray- nor, doing very well when teamed and Ango In Those Dazzling New High Shadzs! 2.95 Take a good look at these styles. You've probably seen them at higher prices—the rest are so new you've probably never seen them at all. In powder blue, hvacinth camel hrown, green, red tile, gray and gold. Sizes 14 to 20, Palais Royal—Downstairs _Store A “Once-in-a-Blue-Moon” Hose Value All-Silk Full- Fashion Hose Irregulars of $1 Grades, But Try to Find the Irregularities! No mended places—just weave chiffon hose, 45 gauge—at just about the lowest price we've ever seen Solid silk reinforcing in the sole. Sizes 8!, to 10%;. Palais Royal—Downstairs Store for such quality! ARY 9, 1933. —— with Mae Davis, has his *inning” during the “studio” number, and Hickman has his in the “court” e scene. Lee BSponsler feeds the come- dians with their gags, afid Ray Par- sons does the character work with several vocal orations as a side line. Carita and Billle Rogers offer sev- eral dancing numbers, the former contributing an Oriental dance among her repertoire and Miss Rogers doing the toe du;:'mg. = e e TWO MINE BOMBINGS 'SPUR ILLINOIS GUARDS Ranks Augmented for Protection of Workers as More Shafts i Are to Open. | | By the Associated Press. TAYLORVILLE, I, January | of hidden stores of explosives and ralded alleged meeting places of pro- gressive unionists. _ Sheriff Wienecke expressed fear that the dynamite, which yesterday shattered a store in Kincaid and a Taylorville lunch room was part of 400 dynamite sticks he said had been stolen Saturday from a powder house at Pana, Ill. The remainder, he said, was perhaps cached for future use, | The store destroyed was owned by Albert Mattozza, chief of police of Kin- caid. ' John Crapalese operated the lunch room. He is a progressive sympathizer, authorities said. The bombings injured no one. Vanderlip Heads Crusaders. NEW YORK, January 9 (#).—The election of Frank A. Vanderlip, retired banker, to the National Executive Com- mittee of the Crusaders and his ap- pointment as chairman of the National Advisory Board was announced yester- day by Fred G. Clark, commander-in- :_hie( of the anti-prohibition organiza- ion. — Italy's purchases of American goods | Spurred to increased activity by two | have been mounting since last July. | bombings, National Guardsmen and | | Christian County officials bustled about | their task today of preserving order in | this strife-i | Sheriff Charles “I Suffered 10 Years | With Itching Eczema” and after spending hundreds of dollars to clear it up, I tried Zemo and G. of Texas. 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