Evening Star Newspaper, May 16, 1933, Page 13

RMUSEMENTS National Players Present Coward’s Hilarious Comedy *Hay Fever.” With a Whole Houseful of “Mad People.” Is well Done and Enthusiastically Received—Ideal Play for Stock. By E. de S. Melcher. OEL COWARD once told s Wwould-be playwright: “Never have more than two crazy peo- ple in a play. You may have two—but no more.” He then sdded: “And always remember to make ordinary peaple‘1 = ordinary as possible ing dull.” “w:‘"'w:deg if at that minute M\:; Coward had forgotten his “Hay Fever.' This (according to some) ‘mysteriously titled comedy has n two crazy people Nor are the ordi- nary people or nary. There aren't any ordinary peo- e in it. he es are all gen- erally insane. And thelr guests are in- sane. ‘This makes the par. You never , at least, what the charac- ters are going to say—or do. stead of makl tove to his hostess i—the reason for being asked to the Bliss household— Danny Tyrell, for instance, whisks house-guest Jackie Coryton, s lady brought to the house for the admira- tion of the host, into the library and there declares his love for her. Other | guests act similarly. They have only m; step over the threshold to fall from one love into another. You could never be an “ordinary” De;lSon to do this. Nor eould be “dull.” TMy!o“hn'L as a matter of fact. an ordinary moment in the play. It made, mad Coward, satisfactory insan- #y which you like if you like Coward, | and rage at it if you feel otherwise. Nevertheless, “Hay Fever” is consid- ed a very good comedy—and a very gmm one. It provides an extremely amusing evening in the theater. Vastly different from “Design for Living,” audiences need not fear the t of seelng three people “who ‘uve each other very much.” They will see a great many people who love each other only because there isn't much else to do. The Bliss house, at any rate, is such a mad house, that if you didn’t turn your thoughts to some- thing moderately exciting you would unquestionably be stone. * xR K Last night the National Players pre- sented this play with an enthusiasm that will be all the more enlusiastic when they have speeded up & few—a very few—laggard spots. It is an ideal lay for a stock troupe if the troupe asts & near-Minnie Fiske (such as the players are fortunate enough in having in much-talented Leona Pow- ers) and if the other members can squash themselves into silly lines with- out overdoing them. Nobody overdid anything last night. One or two even under-did & word or two. There were moments when the second act “died.” Nevertheless, from tonight on, you will see this company— which, by the way, is one of the best companies in the country—put more salt into “Hay Fever” than you have ever seen before—barring that moment when Constance Collier did it on the stage of the Belasco. They should be viewed, certainly, by the thousand and one local amateur groups who have staged this play—for better or for worse—and who are anxious to see what they did well and what they didn’t. * ® x x Miss Powers, who is 0 extraordinarily | ¥8] geared that she can play Lady Macbeth one night and Peg o' My Heart the next, presents in this another of her distinguished character roles. As Judith Bliss, the one-time great actress, who lives in a reminiscent cloud of theatric passion and uses her family merely as | a peg on which to hang her dally outbursts. she is funny enough to be 10 comediennes. Sweeping her auburn locks straight back from her forehead. she sacrifices some of her juvenile is | graces to be “older,” crazier and fun- nier than she generally has been before. While it is impossible to say that she is better than ever—without running out of superlatives long before the sea- son is over—she is at least Minnie guu::-hh enough to be an ideal Judith Other players who deserve the palm include Forrest Orr, for his intense moment of “loff” with beauteous but cold Kathryn Givney; Donald Woods and Romaine Callender, the two sanest of the visitors in the Bliss madhouse, and Freddie Sherman and Ona Munson, who appear as “youth” in this pro- duction. Louise Harrison Gwynn, tall, hand- some Clifford Brooke school pupil, aiso dlppenrl in the cast as a Coward dumb- ora. 5 "ANNUAL CONCERT OF CONGREGATIONAL CHORUS| | Audience Entertained With Music, | LIEUT. GEORGE MOFFETT ASSIGNED TO ANACOSTIA | | |became il and was SCREEN GREAT ACTOR IN TORRENCE Giant Scot Was One of Pioneers of Sound Movies. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, May 16.—The screen lost one of its most noted character actors in the death of Ernest Torrence in New York yesterday. The giant Scot was known to millions over the world as the villainous mountaineer in “Tol'able David” and the scout in “The Covered Wagon.” ‘Torrence was uncommunicative about his life, even among close friends, and it was not until his death that it was learned from relatives that he was 54 years old. Before going to Hollywood, Torrence won recognition as a concert pianist, a musical comedy favorite, a grand opera singer and a character role por- trayer on Broadway. The development of sound pictures brought to him his greatest recognition —a fleld in which he pioneered. As he once related, it was more than 20 years 8go, in Thomas Edison's laboratory, that the first sound film was recorded —with Torrence singing the role of the baritone, Valentine, in “Faust.” After “Tol'able David” in Hollywood came characterizations in ‘“‘Broken Chains,” “The Hunchback of Notre Dame,” “Ruggles of Red Gap,” “North “The Blind Goddess” and “Man- p. Sometimes these were comic instead of sinister. Before leaving California s month ago on the intended Scotland vacation that ended in his death, Torrence com- pleted his work in the screening of “I Cover the Water Front,” which will have its Broadway premiere tomorrow. A memorial for Torrence is planned for the opening. Also tomorrow funeral services will be held at 9 am. at the Church of the Heavenly Rest, on Fifth avenue. The body will be cremated and the ashes returned {o California. Born in Edinburgh, educated in pri- vate schools, and grounded in music at the Edinburgh Academy and the Royal Academy of Music in London, ‘Torrence went on the recital stage. He possessed & rich baritone voice and shortly before the turn of the century sang as well as played at his recitals. In 1901 he was the leading baritone of the Savoy Opera Co.. in London, winning the Royal Academy’s award for operatic work. Then came tours in musical comedies. It was in this work that he came to America and while he was appearing in “The Night Boat” on Broadway film producers made their first offers. Mr. and Mrs. Torrence came to New York a month ago on the Empress of Britain, fellow passengers with George Bernard Shaw. They had planned to continue on to London, but while the ship was in dock here the noted actor taken to the MINNA GOMBELL MAS MADE 5 PICTURES 8UT NEVER WAS BEEN KISSED IN ANY OF THEM. JACKIE COOPER 1S AN EXPERT PART OERSIAN-BLOODED CAT N S INTERNATIONAL NOU“.Q‘HAS BEEN IN PICTURES 12 YEARS. Although Minna Gombell is one of the most comely of screen stars and has appeared in a variety of roles in the 15 pictures she has made, she never | has been kissed on the screen. Curiously enougl film has not required & demonstrative show of affection. lowering their prestige—today even the Prince of Wales considers it quite honorable to appear on the screen. He is now engaged in editing a film in which he is the central character. Social leaders, also, no longer consider a their beauty, education and knowledge of the social graces. ‘Wallace Beery recently was commissioned a lieutenant commander in the United States Naval Reserve. Mae West was billed as “the Baby Vamp” in wu icville. VALIANT DuUST by Percival Christopher Wren it SYNOPSIS: _Oths Belleme. English n. member of the Foreign Le- been accosted on sentry duty by an Arab he recognizes as & colonel of the Secret Service. He orders Otho to take a message to Maj. Riccoli. commander of this Foreign Leglon post near Mekazzen. Riccoli entertains grandi- ote_ambitions for himself, as Sulta tre. His ambitions got him_cashiered from the Prench Army years before, when discovered by Col Le Sage of the Secret Bervice. Otho scents sometnine mysterious bebind the advences of Bombelli, who first offers t with Otho.’ and then invites are the favor of Riccol: and tes on terms Otho cannot pered a few sentences and then leaned back with a satisfied smirk as the vis- itor gave prompt replies. “S0o far so good,” observed the Prench your master. Now as to your being the ear of the Kaid. If your master, the ’Klld, and I, can come face to face and | talk, I can lay bare my mind to him {and’ speak with single tongue. I can promise him such things as he has not dreamed of—such power, such wealth, sucdh greatness, such munitions of war Words appeared to fail the speaker as he contemplated the picture tl ‘while she achieved fame through her outstanding delineation of the characters, the unfolding of the plot in each | Not 30 many years ago stage actors refused to appear in pictures for fear of screen appearance as a lark but often enter pictures as a profitable outlet for | officer. “My messenger evidently reached t he hospital. Son of Late Admiral to Assume Dancing and Short | Sketches. Music, songs, dancing and a series of short sketches composed the thirty-third annual concert of the Mount Pleasant Congregational Chorus last night, pre- | sented in the church auditorium before | a capacity audience Particularly pleasing was the Stephen Foster songs in character, in which the Misses Mitchell, McFall, Bennett, Hub- ble, Franks and Dr. Tyler participated. | 1In their roles with the camptown chorus, another of the character songs. Mes- | dames Marshall, Lord, Howard, Dodge | and Hubble, the Misses Hewett, Pidgeon, | Trey and Staples, and the Messers Alex. ander, Tuve, Guilford, Rand, Duncklee, Buell, Lord, Gibson and Lawrence Swank did equally as well. | Composing the quartet which rendered several entertaining numbers are the Misses Elsie Schulze, soprano; Mary Apple, contralto; William P. Shanahan, tenor, and Herman Fakler, bass. Rev. Russell J. Clinchy, Claude Robe- son, organist and director, and John 8. De Forest, pianist, formed the Mount Pleasant Chorus. Patsy Sulis and Miss Boyer presented the dancing of the eve- | ning in their own interesting and orig- inal fashion. “Silver Threads AmOng the Gold,” as sung by Miss Sofrina Ford | Gill, was received enthusiastically by the audience, as were the group of songs presented by the male quartet of the American University Glee Clubl In all, the attending audience dis- ayed much enthusiasm throughout he concert, encouraging the partici- pants. P.N. J. NEW FRENCH FILM. A new film, “Le Bal,” the first French offering of the Washington Film Guild, will be shown at the Hippodrome The- ater Thursday and Friday nights 4t 11:15 p.m. Adapted from a story by Irene Nemi- rovsky, now residing in Paris, whose Duties in Capital About June 1. One of the flying sons of the late chief of the Navy Bureau of Aero- nautics is coming to the Capital for duty, according to orders made public yesterday. Lieut. George H. Moffett, work, “David Golder,” was recently son of Rear Admiral William A. Mot- | S0V, Ty POUTY . Wre Bal” was fett, who lost his life in the Akron dis- | made by Marcel Vandal and Charles aster, will serve soon at the Naval Air| Delac, veteran French producers, at Station, Anacostia. their studio at Epinay. Lieut. MofTett is to be detached about Indicative of the care and attention June 1 from the aircraft carrier U. S. S. | given this film, is the fact that four Lexington, on which he has been serv- months were required for the prepara- ing with V. F. Squadron 5B. His| tory work and actual shooting. Of par- brother, Ensign William A. Moffett, jr., | ticular interest to Americans are the also & fiyer, is attached to the U. S.S. | exterior scenes, which were filmed in Argonne and recently has been detailed | Paris, in the Luxembourg Gardens and to a survey expedition in Alaska. along the banks of the Seine. Circus Attraction BIG BILL WITH SHOW HERE MAY 31 AND JUNE L the young Russian authoress | latest | 1and shut the door. POLICE SEEK BRACELET Menry A. Marks Reports Thett of UDDENLY, at a clank of hoofs, a jingle of steel, and a creak of leather, Otho sprang to attention, presented arms and returned to the position of attention, and then held out the paper to Maj. Riccoll as that officer, followed by his orderly, | Bombelli, rode out of the gate lnd.‘ glancing at the sentry, returned his sa- lute by raising two fingers to his cap. “What's this?” he asked, reining up. “A letter for you, mon commandant. | That Arab just brought it. I told him to wait there until I was relieved.” Having frowned his way through the document, Maj. Riccoli, his handsome tace otherwise devoid of expression, again read it, and again thoughtfully regarded the messenger. “Hi, you,” he called, and beckoning to the Arab, wheeled about and rode back into the little fort Dismounting and giving his reins to the orderly: “See that I am not disturbed and that no one comes near here,” he said. Then, bidding the Arab follow him, he entered the little stone room that was at once his office and his quarters, Having closed the door, Maj. Riccoli seated himself at the rough wooden table, placed his revolver upon it. and, with 'a wave of his hand, gave his vis- | itor permission to be seated. The Moor, respectfully touching his head and his chest, bowed, and squat- ting cross-legged on the floor of the | hut, drew his feet beneath his cloak. The Prench officer, head on hand, for | some moments silently regarded the dusky, bearded and somewhat dirty face of the man who, from beneath | overhanging, bushy eyebrows, watched | him intently with unwinking gaze. Yes, a typical Moor. A fat-faced, | bushy-bearded hill-man. who might be | own cousin to Abd-el-Krim, Raisuli, or | any other Moorish chieftain—robber, | brigand, rebel, patriot, or whatever one 5 drew. “Promise,” he continued, “promise and perform—and give him proof argl guarantee of my good faith.” | “Ah! Proof and guarantee of good | faith, 8idi. What proof? And what | guarantee?” | “Of that I will talk with the Kaid, | your master, as I said in my letter. and as I bade my messenger tell him.” “Doubtless, Sidi. You must meet the Kaid, my master, face to face, and talk with him. But I also have to face him and talk with him on my return. What can I say of proofs and guarantees that promises can, and will, be performed?” “Say that I will bring him what most he needs—men and munitfons. Every | man worth a hundred as a fighting man; worth a thousand as a trainer of fighting men. Proof and guarantee? | Did I not offer in my letter to put my- | | self completely in his power—to walk into the lion's den? ‘What further proof of good faith could your master | have or want? Is it not rather I, who | need proof and guarantee of the Kaid's good faith?” The Moor smiled with a flash of white teeth. “You will not enter the lion’s den un- armed, Sidi,” he said. “And has the lion neither teeth nor claws?” was the reply. “Let us speak plainly. I will visit the Kaid of Mekaz- zen accompanied by & handful of men, & mere escort, a bodyguard. How many men could the Kaid have in the citadel | of Mekazzen? How many in the city? | How many encamped on the plains confer the bachelor of science degree | ‘Who | on all graduates of the Naval Academy. | about it? 1Is the Kaid afraid? would be in danger from treachery, the | Kaid or 17" “And when you have spoken with | the Kald, my master, with single mind | and simple speech, pure. clear and limpid as the waters of the rivers of | week festival will receive the trophy | Paradise, and you and the Kaid, my MAY 18, 1933. TO BURNING HOUSE RUSHES JIMMY DUNN And the Heroine Is Saved at the Columbia. James Dunn and Boots Mallory, former Follies girl, & duo which does not and never will work as smoothly as the former Eilers-Dunn combina- tion, are co-starred in “Hello Sister,” which opened at the Columbia yester- day. Without the aid of the blond 8ally Ellers in films of this type, Jimmy Dunn might be sald to be taking as quick & step downward as he took to stardom. “Hello Sister” follows the general rur of Dunn “bad girl” films in its story of a girl in love with a boy 1n love and opposing factions in the form of a lying pal with a melodra- matic climax of the boy in love saving the girl from a burning building. In all this film the most interesting part is the rough and tumble fight Minna Gombell has with Terrence Ray, in which they bump their way down a couple of flights of stairs. Zasu Pitts even forgets to be funny in the meshes of sentimentality, and when she falls into sewers or talks of liking funerals, it ian't at all giggle-provoking. Apparently, the gist of the film is that Jimmy Dunn, with his pal Mac (Terrence Ray), walking down Broad- way, decide to pick up a couple of girls (Boots Mallory and Zasu), with Mac beating Jimmy in grabbing Miss Mal- lory's arm. Mac deserts Boots after finding that Minna Gombell is more of the type of girl he likes, and from then on there is a Mallory-Dunn show of cooing and gentle looks into each | others eyes. The romance terminates with the anouncement that Jimmy and Boots are to be married and Mac and | Zasu begin telling him what a sap he s to do such a thing. It takes an explo- sion to jar confessions out of Mac and Zasu and Jimmy dashes into a blazing | building. saves Miss Mallory, asks her | forgiveness for doubting her, and kisses er. A slow motion feature of the acro- | batic Maxello Brothers doing tumbling | stunts, the Paramount news reel, a ]Terry ‘Toon and an Our Gang comedy | complete the program. J.N. H. |WATERWAY TO EMPLOY 15,000 TO 20,000 MEN Lawrence Project to Supply Jobs as Boon as Treaty Is Ratified. 8t. | | By the Associated Press. Immediate employment of 15,000 to 20,000 men on the St. Lawrence water- | way profect was promised President Roosevelt yesterday by Prank P. Walsh, chairman of the New York Power Au- thority, upon ratification of the treaty with Canada. Walsh after his talk with the Presi- dent said he hoped for early considera- tion of the St. Lawrence treaty by the Senate. > “We want ratification,” he said, “and we are all ready to go. We can put between 15,000 and 20,000 men to work right away.” Walsh said s poll of the Senate showed a majority favored the resolu- tion already adopted by the House af- under the treaty. Delos M. Cosgrove, vice chairman of the New York Power Authority, ac- | companied Walsh to the White House. | OFFICERS OVERRUN D. C. Representative McClintic Hits Army and Navy Condition. Charges that Washington is overrun with Army and Navy officers were made in the House today by Representative McClintic, Democrat, of Oklahoma. “Why, we have so many Army and Navy officers in Washington,” Mr. Mc- Clintic said, “that they have a rule re- quiring them to wear civilian clothes | to keep them from wearing out their arms saluting one another.” Mr. McClintic made his statement during debate on a bill which would RECEIVE TROPHIES. PFour winning music clubs in the third annual Loew's Fox Theater Music plaques awarded them by the Loew master, understand each the mind of management tonight at 8:45 on Fog the other, see eve to eye, and clasp |stage, with Phil Lampkin, orchestra hands of friendship—what then, Sidi?” | conductor, presiding. Each of the win- “Then I will bring more men, and | ning clubs will render for the theater liked to call him. | One | Why didn't the fellow speak? yet more, until the whole of my com- Article Valued at $2,500. Police have been asked to aid in & search for a $2,500 and sapphire bracelet which Henry A. Marks of Cincinnati reported was stolen from the pocket of his coat which he hld‘ Jeft hanging in a downtown restaurant. | Marks told police he forgot his coat| and that when he returned for, it the bracelet had been removed from' & case| #n the pocket. The bracelet, of plat-| fnum, contained one large diamond, 200 ‘small diamonds and 25 sapphires, the| police report said. ' Where and When Carrent Theater Attractions and Time of Showing National—" Hay Fever,” at 8:30 pm. Gayety—Ann Corio and Co., bur- lesque, at 2:15 and 8:15 p.m. | Palace—"Reunion in Vienna,” at 11 am., 1:05, 3:15, 5:25, 7:35 and 9:40 pm. 1 Rialto—“The Kiss Before the Mirtor,” at 11:09 am., 12:54, 2:39, 4:28, 6:20, 8:06 and 9:51 p.m. ! Loew's Fox — “The Warrior's Hus-| band.” at 12:06, 2:05, 4:04, 6:03, 8:02 and 10:01 pm. Stage shows at 12:30, 3:10, 6:15 and 8:55 p.m. Columbi: ‘Hello, Sister,” at 11:27 . 1:10, 2:55, 4:45, 6:30, 8:15 and 10 pm. ‘Metropolitan—"“Son, g of the 1G BILL, one of two rhinos coming to Washington with the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus for a two-day show—May 31 and June 1—at Fifth street and Florida avenue. B loses prestige and takes the lower ground if, in dealing with these people, one pays the first visit or makes the | first remark. In silence, Maj. Riccoll endeavored to | out-stare the Moor. To his great an- | noyance he found himself compelled, at | length, to blink, and almost to with- draw his gaze from that of the visitor, | as a fencer disengages his sword. “Well?” he said sharply and received in reply snother bow and salutation, | respectful if not humble. “Why have you come here?” he asked in his all but perfect Moorish Arabic. “To bring that letter, Sidi.” “Do you know what's in 12" do, Sidi.” “You know that it is an answer to my message to the Kaid?” “I do, 8id}L.” “Why didn't you go when you had given the letter to the sentry?” “I have to take an answer, 8idi." “Why could not my messenger to the Kald have brought this letter and taken back my answer?” “My master, the Kaid, is the most trusting of men, but only in the Faith- ful has he any faith—and not much in them. He once trusted the word of the Sultan, publicly pledged on the K'ran.” “So he sent you to find out whether the messenger and the e were genuine, and incidentally to find out anything else that you could and gen- erally to spy out the land?” The Moor smiled. “The Kaid, my master, on whom be peace. sent me to find out whether the messenger and the message were genu- ine,” he reglled. “And also to be his ear into which your excellency might whisper any further words that may | Sidi? mand—men and munitions—foot, horse and guns are at the Kaid’s disposal | under my command. Then indeed may | he hope for victory over the Sultan. Hope, do I say? Nay, be as certain of victory as the faithful are certain of Paradise.” Again the Moor smiled. “And vou can answer for your men. ‘They will fight beneath that banner?” “Are they not soldiers? Have they any duty—or desire—but to obey?” asked Riccoli, spreading eloquent hands, with a shrug of mobile shoulders. “Where I lead they will follow.” “And your government, Sidi? Will they not also “follow’?” “Ah!" replied Riccoll. “It is con- cerning what will happen then, that I must talk with the Kaid, your master. Not another word will I say now, not one.” ‘The Moor rose to his feet. “I will carry your words to the Kaid, Sidi,” he said, touching his heart and head as he bowed. Meanwhile, speak not of me and my visit to any other messenger, for no man knoweth the mind of the Kaid. His will is, that his right hand shall not know what his left hand doeth; and his spies spy upon all his spies.” And tomorrow Bombelli gives post something to gossip about. the L | audience one of the numbers included !in its winning program last week, when 30 amateur instrumental and choral organizations participated in the festival on the theater's stage. ‘The winning clubs are as follows: Senior choralists—American Univer- | sity Men's Glee Club, Harlan Randall, director: this club having won first place in the two previous Music week | festivals. Senior Gas Light Co. Band, Otto Siebeneichen, leader. Senior high. choralists — McKinley High School Boys’ Giee Club, Mrs. Bella ‘Thompson, instructor, and Preston New- ton, student leader. Senior high instrumentalists—Wash- ington Boys’ Independent Band, Clinton | J. Brown, leader. Judges who attended the festival pro- grams throughout the week and rated the above groups were Miss Jessie Mac- | Bride and Messrs, Edward Potter and Phil Lampkin. Junior winners in the festival were the Eliot Junior High School Boys' Glee Club, Miss Hannah Bonnell, director, who received -their trophy plaque Fri- day in a program in their school audi- torium; and the Inter-Junior High School Orchestra, Pranklin J. Jackson, conductor. Judges for these two junior groups were Mrs. Fanny Amstutz Roberts, Mrs. Edna Bishop Daniel and Dr. C. Christiani instrumentalists—Washington | at 11 am, 12:50, 2: and 9:50 pm. R-K-O Keith's—"The Woman I Stole,” at 12:06, 2:05, 4:04, 6:03, 8:02 and 10:01 pm. w435, $16.°s CLEVELAND NURSE DIES | | PORTLAND, Oreg., May 16 (®)— | Mrs. Florence Remington Logan, 72, who | Charles W. Berry announced yesterday | was a nurse in the White House when afternoon that the city had paid the OBLIGATIONS MET NEW YORK, May 16 (#).—Controller | | Earle—"Lilly Turner.” at 11:25 &M, progient Grover Cleveland’s children | $16,000,000 in municipal obligations due 2, 4:35, 7:30 and 10 pm. Stage shows, with Dick Powell in person, a} 13:55 3:30, 6:20 and 9:40 p.m. Central—"'Smoke Lightnin’,” 11 am. to 11 pm. Tivoli—"“The White Sister,” at 2, in 1911 8:50, 5:50, 7:45 and 9:40 p.m. | band, Dr. A. M. Logan of Neotsu. Ambassador—"Lilly Turner,” at 6:15, =——— 8 and 9:50 p.m. here last night. from| She was a graduate of Bellevue Hos- MOONLIGHT TRIP DANCING Tomorrow, May 17 - Strickland’s Capifolians Admission 100—10c 3 D WIISONTINE Boat leeves 9.30 A. M. ond 1.30 P. M. dally l wcegt Sundey for M. Verne " | were born, died at her beach home at . y " Neotsu, Oreg., Sunday, it was learned | esterday. $10,000,000 for relief work and had is- sued $2,000,000 in corporate stock notes | pital, New York. She came to Oregon | to take care of current expenses. She is survived by her hus- | GAYETY_ BURLESK NOW PLAYING ANN CORIO He said the city also had borrowed | now be said—provided your excellency is convinced that I am what I appear to be, the secret messenger and ambas- sador of my master, the Kaid. And to discuss these proposals that give my master,” the Kaid, the- greatest gratifi- cation—as well as to assure your Ex- celé%ncy of my master's absolute good “One thing at a time,” replied Maj. Riccoli, again endeavoring to out-stare Memorable “) (Gomedy.which broke vecords * Also, ““THE WOMAN | STOLE” Select Shorts JACK HOLT FAY WRAY Requel Torres Noah Beefy Starting Priday Most Amasing Girl of the age! "GENE DENNIS ‘The Gorgeous) Starting NEXT SUNDAY and All Week “Peaches’” Browning (IN PERSON) The Most-Talked-of. Weman in the World In Person ASK GENE—SHE KNOWS And on the Screem IRENE DUNNE “THE SILVERSCORD® with Joel XMUSEMENTS. Out Where the Movies Begin Hollywood Is Hard Hit by Loss of John Adolfi and Ernest Torrence—Paul Lukas Gets New Role. BY MOLLIE MERRICK. song or in story, carried them many es alon| Social Dispateh to The Btar. Dathos. “n° We craracier “wors ot HOLLYWOOD, Calif, May 16 (N.A.| movies he has left many great - N.A.) —Through the colony travels that | traits—notably that of the plainsman muted murmur of loneliness . . . John |in “The Covered Wagon,” which is out- Adolfi and Ernest Torrence have standing, and his tremendous role in slipped across into shadowland leaving | “Tol'able David.” Bure fabatitics thac. will be nara.do Al ture ‘identities that to flll.| Paul Lukas has bee; Adolfi—a great director—was stricken | fine role opposite Kltrrlugx‘::nfl:pm with cerebral hemorrhage while on & |in “Little Women,” which will start vacation with some of the men with | early next month under the direction whom he made pictures—Darryl Za-|of George Cukor. This reminds me of nuck, Ray Griffith, Sam Engel, ond‘!he strange story of Paul Lukas—a Bacon and Ray Enright. The end| foreigner who deserves all the com- came in camp in the far wilderness mendation in the world for his splendid near the headwaters of the Columbia |efforts to keep a place in the slippery gllver 'nht lh place n:nl:ed Re‘v'e’l;hwke‘palh of movie fame. e nearest human settlement. Three| A Hungarian by birth, Lukas sa days on muleback it took to bring his | opportunity fadlny' when talkies :a;li body to & railroad. He met eternity in |into Hollywood reckoning because he the earth’'s first frelt gothic cathedral spoke but little English. A large col- —the primeval forest whose clustered jony of foreigners, including many Ger- pillars of tree trunks pointed up to 'mans and Hungarians, had their own stars, tapers on the altar of the umv‘:ittle world here and seldom bothered 4 {to go outside its bounds for Ameri > Adolfi was married 25 years to his society. When the studio w.ldmLunsanl wife, Florence. He was married as long | that his big salary would be no more;» - to the motion picture industry. He since English-speaking actors were now~ was one of the first directors, famous |in demand, that actor took the smallest with D. W. Grifith in the old days parts and the smallest salary while and enjoying a unique comeback with |waiting to learn the English which he talking pictures after a partial eclipse. felt he could master. . He has, of late, carried the directorial | You all know the sesult. But that destiny of George Arliss and completed |isn't all—talkies and their effect upon “Voltaire” just before leaving for the motion pictures were the second trial hunting trip which was his last. “Alex- |in the Lukas carcer. The first was ander Hamilton,” “The Millionaire” | when, newly-arrived from Europe, and other Arliss successes were 8 tudio tests revealed him as not having his triumphs. He stood for that side |sufficlent chin to please directors of of Hollywood which, being unsensa- [the Hollywood lots. His tests, taken tional, is seldom written: A faithful abroad, had been full face; they didn't friend, a faithful husband and & fine 'like his profile. Lukas, undaunted, artist. ‘;“m to rlnf‘urnuus facial surgeon and. — n one of the most amazing operations A little group that liked to gather ey and have ah evening of good talk: good | seesed s O mets Had bis chin line cor- rected music and good fellowship will never be | tie is able to fll the place that Ermest Tor- | fins. sporonmrs” His e oh Pt & rence vacated. His hands, roaming are invariably taken by plane and he idly along the keys, furnished some of is one of {he beet plloss Bercabetee the unforgetable moments in their (coporign: 1033, by North American News- paper Alliance, Inc.) rflusiul memories—his rich voice, in 4 [MARINE BAND’'S HOUR President | MEETS WIDE RESPONSE Letters to Navy Department Ex-_ press Appreciation of *Shut- n” Program. ‘The resumption of the “shut-in" hour by the Marine Band on Friday morn- ings, after a lapse of more than two months, has brought some 200 letters of appreciation to the Navy Depart- ment from those confined to their beds or too ill to move far. Capt. Lester A. Dessez, aide to Maj. Gen. Ben H Fuller, commandant of the Marine Corps, has charge of the band's book- ings. The “shut-in” hour was resumed by the band last Friday for the first time | since former Secretary of the Navy Adams banned it from the air as part of the general program of eliminating the Navy and Marine Bands from broadcasting because of protests of the musicians’ unions that they were com- peting with private industry. The “shut-in” hour is held from 10 to 11 am. | firming New York State's power rights ayron W. Whitney, president of the | Washington Choral Society, which will be heard in concert at Central High Scheol Auditorfum tonight BAND CONCERT. By the United States Soldiers’ Home Band, this evening at the bandstand, at 5:30 o'clock, John 8. M. Zimmermann, bandmaster; Anton Pointner, assistant. March, “Tribute to Sousa’ Goldman Overture, “Willlam Te! Rossini | Entr'acte— | “A Little Story”........Zimmermann “Aubade Printaniere” (A Spring Morn) ......Lacombe | Scenes from the opera “Faust"..Gounod Tango, “Buenos Aires <eene oo .GrCED | Waltz suite, “Beautiful Blue Danube” emnse .....Strauss | Finale. “Our Governor”...Zimmermann “The Star Spangled Banner.” ACADEMY ©f Pertest Sound Fhotovlas. Bite T Burlesque Censored. E. Lawrence Phillips’ Theater Beautiful ntinuous from 5 P in ELLO. EVERYBODY. | NEW YORK, May 16 () —Operators KATE SMITH RY! = !of the six leading burlesque theaters of ~ ERIC LINDEN in “THE PAST OF MARY | the city were given 24 hours yesterday R in which to remove parts of their per- formances deemed objectionable by city fMicials. License Commissioner Gerraghty told | them that if conditions were not rem- | edied he would refuse to Tenew their !licenses. He said he was acting with | the approval of Mayor O'Brien. Tonight, 8:20 NATIONAL Jorshe ' S.E. 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