Evening Star Newspaper, May 9, 1933, Page 11

AMUSEMENTS. Donald Woods Heads Cast In Nation_al’s L] Fine Comedy Stock Company Presents Best Bit of Work of the Season in "Good-bye Again"—Best Example of Simon-pure American Comedy. ByE.de S I'{s DODBYE AGAIN" is probably | the funniest comedy lhntl the National Theater Play- | ers have ever presented. A large audience last night politely laughed its head off at it—and it seems logical to suppose that other | Jarge audiences will also laugh their heads off for the rest of the week. There is scarcely a word of sense in the whole play — and there is never a dull moment. A mad, mad comedy, full of genial in- sanity, it should be viewed as an al- most perfect exam- ple of an American comedy. Its lines are clever, its sit- uations absurd, its characters impos- sible—and its cli- max happy enough to send you home with a giggle and a roar. ‘There has been | no comedy in the last two or three years offered by these players which has been so continually stuffed with nonsense and goad cheer. If you look back over your lists, you will find a few pretty satisfy- ing laugh concoctions, but none that so | consistently chokes you with mirth. We | remember Director-teacher Clifford ; Brooke moseying about in “Bird in| Hand” and being hugely funny. We re- | member Addie Hibbard with a bottle in | “The Ghost Train,” when she almost | ripped off the roof on account of her behavior. We remember Leona Powers, | last seacon, doing a dozen bright ‘hmgsi with more than a dozen laughs in each. | But we cannot faithfully say that we re- | member anything which is quite so funny or quite so agreeable as “Good- bye Again.” | | Donald Woods. * ok ok K | Reasons for its success are many. 1!‘ concerns a rather rare species—a trav- | eling lecturer. The stage has not had [to walk across the stage to be extraor- . Melcher. in his flamingo-colored pajamas, trying to put his bed together and, after the manner of “Bird in Hand,” not being too successful about it. Seldom, in other words, has a literary lecturer, gone somewhat seedv. been presented in such a mood of morning and eve- ning hilarity. * X % x Donald Woods, who undertakes a good measure of this, does, of course, not have the frowsy look that Osgood Perkins (in the original) boasts. Never- theless, this role is far and away the best thing he has done since last sea- son's excellent “Michael and Mary,” and he should be extolled to the skies for being a bright, happy and funny player. His “Kenneth Bixby” is something that you will not want to miss. He under- takes him with a flip abandon which is often his best point—and he is never obviously de‘.rmined—which is some- times his worst point. You will not, really, be able to detect a flaw in this creation—and lady patrons, when it is over, will probably want to put Mr. \}:Ionds in their pockets and take him ome. * ok x x Leona Powers, relaxing a bit from last week's furious word pressure, se°ms to us to have more plain charm this week than possibly she has ever had before. Althcugh her wardrobe allows her only something in green and some- thing else in brown, and although she spends much of the evening listening instead of talking, she has a nice little expression on her face which is worth watching—and you can easily under- stand why Mr. Bixby almost throws himself out of the window in her henor. Students of the drama (hear- ve. Brooke followers) should observe Miss Powers' quiet but playful playing this week. &he is a model of re- strained and attractive acting. She makes a comparatively small role bristle with personality. She has only dinarily attractive. * ok ok Other players who distinguish them- selves include Romaine Callender, in much to say about such & man up until| hig fynniest and best role up to date; im " early in the morni s |Bives her all to her unrestrainable first act) rising unhappily from his bed, | Bt "B o diie Sherman, disguised be- a miserable sight, with his face a puck- | ered index of the night before's hilar- ity, and “bobbing and weaving” in the direction of that gargle, which finally erases the worst stages of miserable- ness. Seldom have you seen him try to work up a small passion for an ex- flame—a lady. now married, who used to be something of a college inspira- tion. Seldom have vou seen him locked | in a closet while the flame and her husband and her sister and her sister’s husband try to find out what this is all about. Seldom have you seen him neath dark glasses, and Ona Munson, who sudcenly is unbelievably good to look at. There are also Adelaide Hib- bard, as an aggressive maid; Burke Clark, doing a waiter bit; Forrest Orr, in an amusing few minutes; a very young Thecdore, played particularly brightly by Omar Patterson; Karl Niel- sen, and Howard Whitfield, who acts as though he enjoys acting—a rare virtue. - All in all. as pleasant an evening as you will find. We dare you to go to the National and not have a good time. OBSERVER ROLE' HOPE OF YALE’S THEATER CHIEF Prof. G. P. Baker to Quit School Post July 1. By the Associated Press. NEW HAVEN, Conn.,, May 9.—FProf. | George Pierce Baker, head of the des partment of drama at Yale, aspires to a new role—that of “observer of the| theater.” | Forty-five years of active work in the | theater—teaching dramatists, training producers, writing, translating and staging plays—end for Prof. Baker July 1. when he retires from his post at Yale. And then, on Broadway, in Muscow, at Madrid, from a new vantage point as an “observer,” he hopes to view the modern drama. For the present, however, he dreams boyish dreams of distant lands—a farm house in New Hampshire, the beaches of California, the open deck of a sail- ing vessel in the South Seas. In his office, under the Gothic arches of the Yale University Theater, where he presides over his “Drama 47" workshop, Prof. Baker tells of his plans. “If we follow the campaign outlined by my wife,” he says, “I'll go to our farm at Madison, N. H., for, the Sum- mer, California for the Winter and perhaps the Soouth Sea Islands in the Spring. “I've had 45 years of the theater and T've reached the point where I feel I need a rest. I'll go to New Hampshire immediately. We have a farm there— 50 or 60 acres—and that will give me an interest. “For the first year,” he says, wist- fully, “I'd like to try the experiment of being perfectly free from the theater. Td like to board & sailing vessel and go from port to port in the South| Seas. I couldn't get much farther from the theater than that. “But after a year I shall probably | be champing at the bit. Then I'd| like to be the ‘Observer,’ let the other fellow do the work and see what re- sults he gets.” And he goes on to talk of the thea-| ter, of the plays and people he would like to see in New York or abroad, at | Moscow and Madrid. “Anywhere I| g0,” he says, “there will always be | the theater. Even in the South Seas,| there would be the native people. | “My retirement goes into effect July | 1. and from that time I shall be free— for a year.” 5 And the way he says “for a year Jeaves little doubt that in his mnew | | A. Gillespie, ! Bakersfleld for Yuma in her airplane Mme. Pompadour DORIS KENYON In the role of Mme. Pompadour, a lead- ing figure of the Warner Bros.’ picture “Voltaire,” scheduled for early release. RUTH ELDER TO MARRY MOVIE ART DIRECTOR Aviatrix and Arnold A. Gillespie Are En Route to Yuma, Ariz., for Ceremony. By the Associated Press. SANTA MONICA, Calif., May 9.— Clover Field Airport, where Ruth Elder, aviatrix and" screen actress, maintains a hangar, was informed she would be married today in Yuma, Ariz., to Arnold assistant art director of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios. Miss Elder, who has been married three times, and Gillespie took off from vesterday but were forced down at THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. INTRIGUE AND LOVE AFFAIRS IN FINE FILM Esther Ralston and Basil Rathbone Star at Columbia. Esther Ralston, one-time American actress who deserted Hollywood for the British cinema prior to talking pictures, returns for a sccond visit via that me- dium (her first being “Rome Express”) in a clever and scintillating bit of com- edy, “After the Ball,” a Gaumont pro- duction released by Fox, which opened at the Columbia yesterday. “After the Ball” should amuse any one who has a sense of humor com- bined with a slight patience with its background of an international arma- ment conference. Some of these scenes, though closely allled and essential to the plot, seem a bit predominant for its lightness and casual comedy. Basil Rathbone, British actor and the centrifugal force of this comeay- drama, turns in an excellent perform- ence and one such as has marked hic American stage appearances, though his part does demand that he trail off, leaving the entire credit on Miss Ral- ston’s rather beautiful shoulders. Affairs of the heart in midnight in- trigue should have no place in affairs of state and diplomatic conferences, but this film will leave you firmly convinced that if it were not for these sly rendez- vous in the wee small hours an arma- ment conference would have come to naught. 23 The entire affair, both the result of this conference and one legation cour- ler's (Basil Rathbone) difficulties over his penchant for the charms of other men’s wives, center around: Firstly, Mr. Rathbone’s desire that charming ladies who have husbands in diplomatic service should not spend boring eve- nings alone. Secondly, a small hand- bag which belongs to a foreign dele- gate's wife and contains the all-impor- tant scal of his country. Thirdly, whether or not the wife of an_English diplomatic secretary (Esther Ralston) has a mole on her back. This mole is as all-important as the seal in that handbag. ‘The discovery of a handbag for which all Geneva is searching, on a ma ried lady's balcony by that lady's hus- band (who has been told all the inti- mate detalls of a midnight intrigue and how that bag came to be there) is rather -incriminating evidence. Such things as this also produci embarrass- ing situations, especially if the lover who left this bit of evidence happens to be a very good friend of the hus- band. However, that selfsame mole clears this situation. How, remains to FALURES N TALY Lack of Money and Other| Pitfalls Stressed by Successful Ones. MILAN, Italy (#.—The great jority of the hundreds of ambitious Americans who come here to train for opera return to America broke, dis- eppointed and disillusioned. There are definite reasons for this, three Americans who have made suc- cesses on the Italian musical stage be- lieve. They are Edith Mason, formerly of the Chicago Civic Opera and wife of Giorgio Polacco, the conductor; Franco Foresta-Hayek, a New York tenor who just has finished 37 performances O(K “Madame Butterfly” at Palermo with | Miss Mason, and Jose Mossesgeld San- tiago, now singing as Santiago Font | with Tito Schipa and Beniamino Gigll. | ‘Two of the chief reasons they cite | interlock—lack of staying power and | lack of money. Aspirants, Hayek de- clares, should command between $10,000 and $15,000, which should last them over the period of five years or longer Lefore they can hope to earn expenses by singing. Tips Are Necessary. Besides lessons, there are “travel, liv- ing expenses, costumes, wigs and tips,” Hayek says. “This last item must not be forgotten. To get by in this busi- ness you have to ‘sugar’ everybody down the line. It costs money. Another im- | portant item is advertising, something very few singers know how or where to ge! Miss Mason beliéves no singer past 25 years should go to Italy to study, and certainly none without a musical and singing sense. - Good health and strong nervous systems are essentials often overlooked, she adds, and girls particularly should.not hope for success without a “figure for the stage.” Regu- lar hours and strength of character also are necessary, and sufficient care is not always exercised about the debut. Both Hayek and Font emphasize the necessity for a perfect Italian diction, and the former feels that Americans particularly often fail to overcome a native lack of grace and rhythm on the stage. | Respect for the Italian tradition when | singing in Italy is equally essential, and Font points out that the important ones to please are not the people in the boxes, but the standees in the gallery, most of whom know the standard operas note for note. Milan Debut Dangerous. “Don't dream of making a debut in| Milan,” adds Hayek. ‘“You are then at your greenest and worst. Sing in.Mi- ian only when you can put your best ! foot forward, and have a record of per- formances behind you. | “Do not pay for your debut. Make ! your debut on your merits and wait| until you find some one who will let ! SCREEN ODDITIES BY CAPT. ROSCOE FAWCETT. WiLL ROGERS’ CONTRACT SPECIFIES THAT ANY HUMOROUS LINE COINED BY HIM_ WHILE FILMING A PICTURE WILL BE RETAINED IN THE COMPLETED FiLM IF HE SO DESIRES. UNA ERKEL'S MOST PRIZE POSSESSION | HELEN HAYES’ WEDDING BOUQUET. N BITTER FLAVORING OFTEN ADDED TO ‘PROP’ WHISKY TO HELP AN ACTOR MAKE WRY FACE AFTER. DRINKING (T. The practice of adding a bitter flavoring to prop whisky is employed in comedy scenes and quite oftep in dramtic scenes because many di- rectors contend that drinkers invariably grimace after imbibin s A Lmost always a “stiff” drink. Cold black tes, ginger ale, root beer and other carbonated drinks are commonly used to represent hard liquors in pictures. ‘The actual sound of the chimes of St. Mary's in London will be heard in “Service,” although the picture was made entirely in Hollywood. A recording cf the chimes recently was sent from abroad for the studio sound library. For the film, the chimes were played back over a loudspeaker and re-recorded in the proper place in the picture. the same method. Johnny Weismuller never swims until four hours after eating. When Karen Morley is required to remove her wedding ring for a motion pleture scene, she wears it suspended from a chain around her neck. “The Jean Harlow's philosophy every_generous though illustrates the walls of your chamber."—Quarles. Elissa Landi's philocophy: “The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.”—Cecil. Joe E. Brown's philosophy: “A laugh is worth a hundred groans in any market."—Lamb. It used to cost $500 to stage a realistic fog for the talkies when expensive, ‘The chimes of “Big Ben,” the huge beil in the English House of Pariiament, were heard in “The Mask of Fu Manchu” through fountain of beauty is the heart and highly refined oils were used in the process. Now & new chemical formula has been perfected which materially cuts down the cost. The chemicals, the com- pounding of which is kept secret, are perfumed and sprayed under pressure in the same way the oil was used. It is considered much less offensive, though. GERMAN MOVIE TEAM- UNDER NEW CONTRACT Marlene Dietrich and Josef Von Sternberg Sign With Paramount for Two Pictures. By the Associated Press HOLLYWOOD, May 8.—The team of Marlene Dietrich and Josef von Stern- berg is coming back to the films. The producer and the German actress he discovered in a Berlin music hall yesterday signed new cchtracts with Paramount studios calling for two pictures which Von Sternberg will direct and in which Miss Dietrich will star. The first is to be filmed next October. The contracts signed, Miss Dietrica announced she would leave in a few days for Germany, returning to the United States in September. Both Miss Dietrich and Von Stern- berg had been at odds with the studio since the dissolution of the team last “TWO-TIMING” POPULAR AS FASHION ECONOMY Hollywood Eo-eds Convert Frocks / and Use Them in Different Ways to Keep Pace. | | By the Associated Press. | HOLLYWOOD, May 9—Modern co- eds are taking courses in two-timing, say Hollywood frock designers, investi- | gating the wardrobes of the collegiate. ! And so Lona Andre has learned how to make one dress take the place of two. Miss Andre, playing the role of a socially minded sophomore, found a | variety of gowns is essential both on and off the campus. “Every evening frock that goes to the rom or night club this scason has a little top piece of jacket hanging at | home that will turn it into an informal | dinner gown in one second,” said this | young player. “Even the tailored en- sembles worn by the younger set become afternoon frocks for teas or sorority parties when the coats are removed. A | ‘two-timer* wardrobe is the only eco- nomical and chic way to manage the year. Von Sternberg had directed the |clothes problem these days.” German star in five pictures, and the| In a cuwrrent picture, Miss Andre last she started, under another director, wears eight campus costumes, which was not_finished. | multiply to 16 with the additional coats, Miss Dietrich and the studio could | wraps, jackets and berthas. not agree on a picture. The actress| One example worn by Miss Andre is was suspended and sued for assertedly |a prom frock of pink satin, with a refusing to carry out her contract and | waistline ruffie of chiffon. When a part then the case was dropped. | jacket with sleeves of pleated and ruf- Von Sternberg betame at odds with fled chiffon and scarf of the same the studio over a film vehicle which | material are added, the frock becomes | he said was not suited to Miss Dietrich. |a dashing semi-formal dinner outfit. Local Color for Play Members of the cast of “The Bellamy Trial,” by Frances Noyes Hart, to be produced by the Drama Guild of Washington, obtaining local- color in the court of Judge Robert E. Mattingly. Left to right: Grace Peters Johnson, Naomi Warden, Dennis Connell, Maurice Jarvis, Joseph Haltigan, Prank Jamison and Judge Mattingly. —Star Staff Photo. SYMPHONIC PROGRAM. A violin solo with orchestra accom- paniment will feature the monthly PLAY WOODIN MUSIC. Lieut. Charles Benter, lender.o!_ the United States Navy Band, has received numerous requests to repeat the pro- yole as observer of the theater Prof. Baker will be as active and as pro- ductive as he has been in his work et Harvard and at Yale, Indio. Calif., for an_ overnight stop. Miss Elder’s first husband was C. E. Moody, a schcol teacher. She next wed Lyle Wemack, member of the Byrd expedition to the South Pole. Her third husband was Walter Camp, § \sportsman and film company offici Divorces ended each union. Where and When | VIENNA WATCHES —NAZIS | will Guard Against Propaganda Current Theater Attractions and Time of Showing you sing without making you pay for symphonic program of the United the privilege. _Once you pay, the word | gime i\ 0 PISER T 0SB goes round and your troubles have be- 5 gun in earnest. \cen tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock in “After the debut, do not be discour-| the band auditorium at the Marine aged if you do not get many engage- | ments. A debut does not mean that you | BarTacks. . Musician Delbert Allen will are made. It is the very beginning.| play the Russian composer Glazounow's Keep studying and wait for your chance. “Violin Concerto Opus 82. Every one comes to Milan expecting to | _In response to many requests Capt. be the one exception in a million. If Taylor Branson, leader of the United singers can make a good living, they States Marine Band Orchestra, has in- should be satisfied. The ratio of great | cluded in this program the two popular successes to contenders therefor isabout symphonies, “Symphony No. 8 in B 1 to 1,000.” | Minor” (unfinished), by Schubert, and gram of Secretary Woodin’s composi- | tions, played in April. The entire pro- | gram will again be presented in a| public concert at the sail loft, Navy | Yard, Wednesday evening, May 10, at 8 o'clock. Secretary Woodin will be | present to hear his works, prominent among which is the new symphonic ' suite, “Covered Wagon Days,” which' was arranged especially for the Navy Band by George Drumm of New York. National—"'Good-by Again,” at 8:30 pm. Gayety—"Girls de Luxe” burlesque, at 2:15 and 8:15 p.m. Palace—"Today We Live.” at 10:45 & 12:55, 3:05, 5:15, 7:25 and 9:35 am, e t All Night" at 11"52‘ Rialto—"Oul ight. R am, 1:52, 3:52, 5:52, 7:52 and 9:52 p.m. Loew’s Fox—"The Barbarian,” at 10:45 m., 1:20, 4:10, 7:05 and 10 p. o 3:20, 6:15 and shows at 12: SR olumbia—“After the Ball,” at 11:10 arg 12:55, 2:40, 4:30, 6:15, 8:05 and 9:50 pm. —“Picture Snatcher,” at n?:.‘,mlnzlm?z:ao. 4:20, 6:05, 7:50 and 9:40 p.m. " . o K- eith's—“Diplomaniacs.” at | “?SIK:I‘“.‘KL“. E:SQ.DO:OI, 8:05 and | 10:08 p.m. ‘Earle—"“The Working Man,” at 11:15 am. 1:55 4:35, 7:20 and 10:15 pm.| Stage shows at 12:55, 3:35, 6:20 and 9 pm. Tivoli—“Sweepings,” at 2:25, 4:15, 6, 7:45 and 5 p.m. Central—“Pick-Ups,” from 11 am. to 11 pm. Ambassador—“The Working Man,” at 6:15, 8 and 9:50 pm. From Berlin Visitgrs. VIENNA, May 9 (#)—The Socialist and pro-government press was aroused today over a threatened “air invasion” on Saturday by prominent Nazis from Berlin. The expected visitors, one of whom is Hans Kerel, Prussian minister of justice, are scheduled to speak on the co-ordination of the German and Austrian legal codes, but the semi- official Reichspost declares they are coming &s Nazi agitators and warns them that they are not welcome. ‘The government is not makirg any official comment, but preparations are afoot to prevent the arrival of the Germans at the airport from develop- ing into a big Nazi demcnstration, particularly since the pro-government Fascist Helmwehr is to hold a demon- stration the next day. — o Stockholm Rents Go Down. STOCKHOLM (#).—Rents in Stock- holm are being reduced from five to ten per cent effective next October, a survey showing that the public is ex- hibiting a merked preference for larger half-modern apartments jnstead of the smaller places with up-fq-date equip- l Font believes the operatic aspirant | can get everything he needs in Am ica excepting diction and repertoire, for which Italy is essential. And Hayek warns that teachers are the same in Milan ss elsewhere—some good, some bad. “It is strictly up to one's indi- vidual intelligence to select the one best suited to one’s particular needs.” — | Czar’s Watch Turns Up in Delhi. ] DELHI, India (®.—A watch which,' it is claimed, belonged to the late Czar of Russia, has been offered for sale here for approximately $7,800. It contains portraits of seven generations of British rulers and seven generations of czars. GAYETY THEATRE Presenting Burlesk Only 2 Summer Concassion Coupons—2 || i e the symphony “From the New World in E Minor, Opus 95™ by Dvoral OF HITS” THE NEW SPANISH GARDEN BALLROOM WITH McWILLIANS ORCH. OF 18 AND ALL THE MORE THAN 50 AMUSEMENTS AT THE 40-ACRE CARNIVAL Auspices Costello Post, American Legion TUESDAY, MAY 9, 1933. “MERRY MOUNT” TO MAKE DEBUT AT MICHIGAN U. American Opera to Be Presented First Time on May 20. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, May 9.—The American- made opera, “Merry Mount,” which had been pointed for a Metropolitan Opera House premiere, will instead make its world bow at the May Festival of the University of - Michigan, Ann Arbor, May 20. It will be as nearly all-American as an opera could be, with its composer, Dr. Howard Hanson, a native of Wahoo, ebr., and the librettist, Richard L. Stokes, a former St. Louls and New York newspaperman. The story itself is completely American, with cavaliers, Puritans and Indians as the characters involved. Further emphasizing its Americanism has been the assignment of principal roles to leading can singers— John Charles Thomas, Rose Bampton, Leonora Corona and Charles Baromeo among others. “‘Merry Mount” is to be given at Ann Arbor by consent of the Metropolitan Opera which had planned to introduce the work to the world during the 1933- 34 season. The chorus for the opera will be sup- plied by the University Choral Union. The music of “Merry Mount” is “neither modern nor unimodern.” but combines such technical devices as seemed to suit the subject at hand, Dr. Hanson has said. Dr. Hanson is 37 years old and one of the youngest men in a first rank mu- sical position in the country. He has conducted a series of concerts devoted to first performances of American works for years. He is director of the Eaatfiar;, School of Music at Roches- ter, N. Y. Club Recital WILLIAM P. SHANAHAN, | washington tenor, who will assist the | | Rubinstein Club in concert at the Wil-| lard Hote! tonight. CADET UNIFORM BID PROBE IS REQUESTED ;Attorney Charges School Board Failed to Open Contracts to Competition. The House District Committee yester- day was asked by Albert E. Steinem, an attorney, to make an investigation of the alleged failure of the Board of Educa- tion to open to competitive bidding contracts for furnishing uniforms to members of the Washington High School Cadet Corps. “For the last few years,” Steinem de- clared. “the Board of Education has been using one contractor and has not allowed other contractors to bid in com- petition on this business. I took the matter up with the Board of Education early in February and they have writ- ten me from time to time that the matter was under consideration as to what they would do in the future. “Yesterday I received a letter from the Board of Education inclosing a copy of a report from a committee, which is herewith inclosed. and apparently they are going to continue their prac- tice of not allowing competition in the bidding on those contracts. “In view of their action, T am won- dering if your committee will look into this matter to the end that competition be allowed.” ADMITS GOLD THEFT Given Four to Eight Years for Taking $10,000. CORTLAND, N. Y. May 9 (@) .— Ernest Edward Andrick, 26, of Virgil switched his plea suddenly last night before.County Judge George M. Champ- lin and admitted he stole $10,000 in gold from the Virgil cottage of Dr. Franklin E. Cutler of Cleveland, Ohio, during the past Winter. The youth was immediately sentenced to a term Prisoner of four to eight years in Auburn Prison. { The youth said he opened a trunk in the Cutler cottage while the eye specialist was in Florida and found the $10,000 in gold. Ralph Twitchell of Binghamton is in jafl awaiting sentence after his plea of guilty as an accessory to the crime WHEELER WOOLSEY in “Diplomaniacs” Zoming— Trene Dunne “The Silver Cord™ ° COMING FRIDAY IN “LILLY TURNER" _DICK POWELL AMUSEMENTS, Out Where the Mo Columbia Shows Million-Dollar Profit, Despt;te De- pression, Maintaining a Record of Never Having Been HOLLYWOOD, Calif., May 8 (N.A. N.A).—Here's something to interest you in a day of failing studios, cut sal- aries and general depression in and about motion pictures. Columbia Studio, under leads Harry Cohn—once rated as a “poverty <hip of one of the most worthwhile independent organizations in the industry—issues its quarterly financial statement. It shows a neat yearly profit of about & million dollars after all expenses and taxes are paid. This studio has never been in the red since the day of its beginning. When salaries were cut Harry Cohn declared there was no necessity for so doing on his lot and he was the first to return full pay to n.\erh people. r ere are a good many big enter- prises that would like to )shu:“‘ a mil- lion profit on a year's business when all expenses are paid. So, there is money in the motion picture industry—hoys and girls—after all. Hollywood has become “Alice In Won- derland” conscious. For years and years the Lewis Carroll classic has lain dustily ‘on library shelves—neglected by modern kiddies who have a line of fic- tional entertainment developed of late time and not requiring such imagina- tive play as this immortal fancy would demand. The grown-ups who know what is what have read it from time !?! time, just from sheer love and loy- alty. Along comes an announcement from Walt Disney that he will make an ani- mated cartoon of “Alice In Wonderland™ with Mary Pickford actually playing Alice and the rest of that fanciful group—Mad Hatter, Red Queen, White Queen, the March Hare, the White Rabbit, the Walrus, ths Carpenter and 1 1 1 ‘ row” enterprise and now regarded as| in “the Red.” others all done in the cartoon sérip. Then along came Paramount’s a: nouncement that it will make “Alice™ with Alison Skipworth as the Red Queen. And, almost coincident with this, came Columbla’s announcement that it would also make the Lewis Carroll story. A conference was held in which Columbia yielded to Para- mount’s prior claims in the matter and chose another vehicle to fill in, There is a man in Hollywood who outlines people with knives—just pour le sport and pour le movies. You'd be surprised what a business he does at _times. It isn't always the sort of scene where the victim is standing against a board having the silhouette neatly delineated with shining steel. Some- times he has to hurl a knife right past the victim's head as he saunters across lh; an‘nmsdln;‘e floor. N one South American picture of this kind his work was orl.’e of the | most telling dramatic momes You saw the entire progress of the knife in camera from the moment it left his hand until it landed in the wood. If hé has to graze an extra player the fee is but $15. If a character actor who works pretty steadily. it gocs up to £50. But | if the story calls for en cscape on the 1pla;}| of the leading man or lady—it’s He makes special prices for great stars: But he doesn't have to dflthil | often since great stars aren't particu- | larly fond of knife throwing- their vicinity. Sign of hard times: A couple of | famous stars who have been dashing | about in flivvers, have been renting their imported cars for the movies— at 50 bucks the day. | (Copyright, th American News Inc.) REICH MAY REMOVE | 1TS JEWISH ACTORS Nazi Minister Believes Public Will Make Government Ac- | tion Unnecessary. By the Associated Press BERLIN, May 9.—Dr. Joseph Goeb- bels, Nazi minister of public enlighten- ment, believes the theater is one fleld in which the Hitler government need not take measures to oust the Jews. He predicts the public gradually will force them out. Chancellor Hitler's propaganda spe- cialist told a meeting last night of theater owners. directors and stars that the government has no intention of forcing the theaters to produce propa- ganda. He cited the present revolution as an excellent sample of drama “en- | acted in the daily streets.” New Art to Be Heroic, “German art in the next decade will ‘be heroic, steely, romantic and devoid of sentimentality,” he asserted. “It will be national with great pathos or it will not_exists.” Further restrictions on Jews were im- posed today in revised civil service reg- ulations. Jews maintaining offices be- cause of war service must now show they underwent fire in the war and those who were ever identified with Communists or the Republican War Veterans’ iation are barred. This applies to such posts of judges, profes- sors, notaries and police. Premier Hermann Goering of Prus- sia. a Nazi member of the national cab- inet, also spoke last night, attacking unauthorized formation of various or- ganizations in German life which close- Iy approximated “political racketeer- ing.” Hits “Theater Central.” He ordered the public to ignore the “German Theater Central” “which sought to form a theatergoers’ union. Similarly he ordered actors’ groups to desist from activities calculated to harm non-members, asserting that the government is for all and not select groups. His declaration also was aimed at va- rious groups seeking to worm their way into business and gommercial life ‘The first result of this announcement was & statement by students’ organiza- tions that care would be taken not to consign any valuable scientific books to ToW. | ever, for the burning ceremonies in many cities. So-called un-German books, particularly the works of Jews and Marxists, are to be destrcyed. Mrs. Ronald Colman IIL NICE., France, May 9 (P).—Mrs. Ronald Colman, wife of the film actor, was reported today to be seriously ill in a Nice hospital. Her husband is believed to be in England. NATIONAL® Mats, izhts, $1 50¢ and 25¢ Wed. and Sat.. 25¢ and Cochran and Cilfford Brooke “THE REIGNING SUCCESS OF THE CURRENT SEASON “GOODBYEAGAIN" Simultaneously with the N. Y. Enzagement at the Masque Theater VL “HAYFEVER” *27%% EXTRA TODAY Musle Week Program ALSTON ASIL RATHBONE the bonfires which are to blaze tomor- | Plans are being carried forward. how- | 15e, | ‘Chicago’s Greeter Says Job Cost Him $20.000 in 2 Years: George G aw Explains’ Why He Resigned Payless Position. | | Bs the Associated Press. CHICAGO, May 9.—George Gaw, self-retired official greeter, declared to- | day that this business. of meeting the rains and extending Chicago's glad hand to visiting celebrities for two years had cost him $20,000. But, he said ft with a smile and with nary a trace of regret in his voice. Az for the $20,000—well, he wouldn't even mention it if some folks hadn't gotten the idea that he had been spending his time racing from one depot to another greeting thousands of persons he didn't know—or even care to know—for personal glory snd—yes, even_money. They don't know,” he said sadly, ow I suffered from the ridicule of my friends and family—and about all those letters.” Those letters,” it developed, came in batches of @s many as 100 & day frem persons in all walks of life with but & single purpose. Couldn't Mr. Gaw get them a job? It got on his nerves. However, Mr. Gaw believes his greet~ ings did much to remove the gangster stigma from the city's fair name. "Chicago has finally ceased to be- come a synonym of gums,” he declared, ‘and at not a cent of cost to the ad- ministration.” R R A IRy ADEMY © Feriss tm E_Lawrence Phillips' Thi 5 GI%I;,GDE ROA\'EI;I .a!ANCYe.‘éYARBRg(.)t%h“ ~IRON MASTER." . BN CLARENDON AsH'l‘oN JOAVY:" IRENDON.” VA. 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