Evening Star Newspaper, March 3, 1935, Page 13

“DELAWD MISSES| SHOW FIRST TIME Harrison Ill and Understudy | Goes on After Five- Year Wait. By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, March 2—Richard B. | Harrison, 70-year-old colored actor whose portrayal of “de Lawd” in “The Green Pastures” has won him fame, collapsed of fatigue today as he was putting on his make-up for the 1,659th performance of the show. | “Charley, hold me up,” the vener- able, white-haired Harrison called | to his boyhood friend and understudy, Charles Winter Wood, before he was taken to the Fifth Avenue Hospital. “I'll be back In a few days. The world needs this play.” | The matinee performance was the first one in which Harrison did not play “de Lawd.” Not once in the five years since the play opened had he been late or absent. Dr. Milton J. Raisbeck, personal physician to the actor, said tonight after examining Harrison that he | was “a very tired man” and that it | would be necessary for him to re- main in the hospital for a “good rest.” Weary After Trips. Dr. Raisbeck said there was no heart condition and that Harrison had been worn down by the long run, | the 40,000 miles of travel and one- night stands. | While Harrison's general condition | was excellent, he said, he refused to | say when he thought the veteran | actor could leave the hospital or | when he would be able to.return to | the stage. | When Harrison collapsed, he re- quested a heart specialist to be sent immediately to his dressing room. | Evidently he did not realize his diffi- culty was fatigue from a run-down condition. The show went on with Wood in the leading role—an opportunity for which he had waited five years. But there was no joy in his heart. He| was worried for his friend. There were, however, enthusiastic curtain calls for him after the concluding act. Once a week, Wood rehearsed the part with the cast. but he never played “De Lawd” before an audience, He had understudied other roles, too. and had played minor parts, such as Abraham, Noah and the archangel. | Old-time Actors. Both Harrison and Wood are old- timers in the show business. Harri- son at first was an itinerant Shake- spearean reader, traveling through the South. For seven Summers he was a professor of dramatics at a Negro school in Greensboro. N. C. Wood, too. specialized in Shake- spearian work. He organized the first professional Negro Shakespeare troupe in America, playing Richard III and others. Wood, who now is 69. became affili- ated with Tuskegee Institute 30 years ago through the efforts of Booker T. Washington, the founder. He was head of English and dramatics When “The Green Pastures” opened, Marc Connelly, who dramatized the material from stories written by Roark Bradford, informed Harrison he would | need an understudy. Seventy aspirants were interviewed, and none was suitable. Harrison sug- gested his friend, Wood. and so he left Tuskegee to take the job Wood is very much like Harrison, both as “De Lawd” and in person. They are kindly and sincere in their work. Wood is the son of a Methodist preacher. — DR. RIVERS T0 SPEAK Naval Medical School Students to Hear Institute Authority. Dr. Thomas Milton Rivers, member of the scientific staff of the Rocke- feller Institute for Medical Research. will be the honor guest and principal speaker at the U. S. Naval Medical School tomorrow evening. Capt. H. W. Smith, commanding | the school, said Dr. Rivers' subject will be Itrable Viruses” and “Virus Diseases.” Capt. Smith said this will be the sixth of the current series of monthly meetings for regular, retired and reserve officers of the Navy Med- ical Department, residing in the Dis- trict and vicinity. RICHARD B, HARRISON. DOMINICAN BORDER DISPUTE IS CLOSED Haiti and Neighboring Republic Adjust Boundary Controversy of Many Years. ‘Word reached the Dominican Le-| gation here yesterday that the 70-| yvear-old boundary dispute between | the Dominican Republic and Haiti has | been settled. | In making this announcement, the Dominican Legation said President | Trujillo Molina of the Dominican Re- public, and President Vincent of Haiti, conferred in Haiti recently, settling all five of the principal boundary questions. The dispute, which dates back to the time when Haiti was French territory and Santo Domingo under Spanish rule, never did reach battle pitch. Haiti became independent in 1804, and the Dominican Republic was released from Spain 40 years later. The only outbreaks over the boundary question were from minor guerilla warfare engagements shortly before 1920. In 1930 the two countries agreed to a peaceful solution by arbitration. Last week, President Vincent was in Santo Domingo City on an official visit to the Dominican President, when the frontier treaty was signed and | the two island republics settled their political difficulties. TEXAS BORDER PARK | PROPOSED BY ICKES | International Peace Project Would Further Plans to Widen Pub- lic Domain. | of the inevitable day of reckoning and ! THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, NEW DEAL BIGGEST FAILURE, SAYS FISH New York Republican Hits Experiments — Claims Honeymoon Is Over. By the Associated Press. An end of the New Deal “honey- moon” was foreseen last night by | Representative Fish, Republican, of New York, on the eve of tomorrow’s half-way mark in President nooae-[ velt's first term. “The administration honeymoon has cracked up as was inevitable, on a series of broken promises and | pledges and on unsound, unworkable and socialistic experiments,” he said in a radio speech. “I indict the Democratic adminis- tration on its record for the past year as the greatest failure in American history. * I denounce it for under- mining our free institutions, turning the Constitution into a scrap of paper, and changing our representative form of government, without the approval or consent of the American people, into an autocratic and dictatorial form of government. “I condemn it as having no eco- | nomic policy except to pile debt upon | debt by borrowing, more borrowing | and still more borrowing, without any | thought of balancing the budget or' collapse of credit and bankruptcy of the Government. “I charge it with having honey- combed the various departments of | the New Deal with radicals, Socialists and near Communists and contrib- utors to Communism, and for having done more to promote class hatred and class antagonism than all previ- ous administrations since the found- | ing of the Republic.” = 'LIEUT. T. D. WHITE GIVEN ROME POST| Officer Lately in Moscow to Be-; come Embassy Attache at i Italian Capital. Assignment of Lieut. Thomas Dres- ser White, Army Air Corps, as as-| sistant military attache and assistant military attache for air at the Amer- ican Embassy in Rome, has been an-| nounced by the War Department. Lieut. White, who served two tours of duty at Bolling Field, was the first Army representative in Moscow in 17 years. He was sent to Soviet Russia in January, 1934, as assistant military attache and assistant mili- tary attache for air when diplomatic relations were resumed. Establishment of an “international | peace park” on the Texas-Mexican | boundary in what is known as the Big Bend country, was recommended to President Roosevelt yesterday by Sec- retary of the Interior Ickes, in fur-| therance of his plans to widen the extent of the Government's public domain. If Congress authorizes this national park, Ickes suggested that the Mex- ican government be invited to co- | operate in establishing & part on the | Mexican side. Precedent for such a park was set in 1932, in the creation of the Waterton Lake. Glacier Inter- national Peace Park on the United States-Canadian border. | Formerly infested by bandits, long since wiped out by the Texas Rangers, the 5,500 square miles in this area ! inclosed by the big bend of the Rio Grande River is included in the last wilderness of Texas. It is a semi-| arid plain, verging on desert. through which a group of mountain ranges, principally the Chisos, has been | thrust. These are the gouthernmost spur of the Rockies. The Chisos Range Phantom, the highest and most rugged. attaining an altitude of 7.835 feet, is literally a biological island. Meeting Called. CLARENDON, Va., March 2 (Spe- cial).—A meeting of the Catholic Woman's Club of Arlington County is announced for Monday night. The monthly card party will be held Tues- day night in St. Charles’ School Hall. Lieut. White is the son of Bishop John Chanler White, Springfield, Iil. and a descendant of Gen. Franci' Marion, “Swamp Fox” of Revolution ary fame, and John C. Calhoun. H was graduated from the Military Academy at 19, the youngest man in his class and éne of the youngest graduates in West Point history. He spent four vears in Manchuria. China, and the Philippines and spent a year as official military observer of the Chinese-Japanese fighting in Manchuria | Lieut. White is married. His wife | is the former Miss Rebekah Blaine Lipscomb of Washington. G. 0. P. CHIEFS GATHER McKelvie and Hyde Attend “Pep” Meeting in Nebraska. LINCOLN, Nebr. March 2 (P).— Two prominent figures of the Hoover administration took leading parts in a “pep” meeting of Republican chief- tains from Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas and Missouri here yesterday. They were Samuel R. McKelvie, |who was a member of the Hoover Farm Board, and Arthur M. Hyde, former Secretary of Agriculture. Hyde, addressing the gathering, which considered plans for the 1936 campaign in the States represented, asserted “the road to progress lies along the same route we have come.” The occasion was a celebration of the sixty-eighth anniversary of Ne- braska’s admission to Statehood. USED SPECIAL BEAUTIFUL BABY GRANDS at Arthur Jordan Piano Co. Mason and Hamlin Chickering Marshall and Wendell Cable and Sons Schubert and others Price range: New—$295 to $1,800. Trade in your old piano. Buy on Jordan’s Budget Plan. STEINWAY GRAND ARTHUR JORDAN FIANO COMFANY 12396 Street ~ Cor.13% NW. D. €, MARCH 3, 1935—PART ONE. Symphony Association Sets $100,000 as Sustaining Fund Full Strength Orchestra of 110 Pieces, With Members Paid Living Wage, Is Objective. A full-strength orchestra of 110 pleces, with the members paid a “liv- ing wage,” is the principal objective in the drive for a $100,000 sustaining fund that will be launched March 15 by the National Symphony Orchestra Association. Under the present set-up the Na- tional Symphony is composed of 80 players, who are paid far less than their contemporaries in other cities, and are forced to take odd jobs during the off-segson to eke out an existence. Fund Is $40,000 More. The fund is $40,000 more than has been raised in other years for support of the National Symphony, but it is much less than the sum given for the operation of symphonies in other large cities. Last year the Boston Sym- phony required a budget of $600,000; the Philadelphia Orchestra, $500,000, and the New York Philharmonic, $686,000. Pittsburgh, with a slightly larger | population than the Capital, required a budget of $100,000, but gave only eight concerts, compared with the Na- tional Symphony’s 30. It has been pointed out by officials of the National Symphony Orchestra Association that the fact that $100,000 will permit the symphony to place its players on a yearly basis of pay and at salaries that will permit them to be | assured an adequate income is proof | enough of the vital urgency of a fund | not less than $100,000. Musicians Co-operate. Moreover, officials said, it would be impossible for the symphony to carry | on with this comparatively small amount if it were not for the co-oper- | ation of the players and the greatest | the only American designer in Paris, | economy and care observed by the and also some Spring hat collections. | board of directors and the manage- | If the fund is raised it will permit | the symphony to give more concerts peared wearing & head band with provide more | three tiny ostrich plumes resembling | in Constitution Hall, son of Summer concerts. 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