Evening Star Newspaper, June 29, 1935, Page 30

B—14 - - AMUSEMENTS. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, SATURDAY, “Edward Arnold Week” Is BeingCelebrated at the Fox ‘Actor Once a Member of Steve Cochran’s Players—George Raft and “The Glass Key.” “Becky Sharp,” “No More Ladies” Held Over. BY E. de S. MELCHER. HIS is Edward Arnold week T appearance.” at the Fox. Mr. Arnold plays a leading role in George Raft's best starring picture, “The Glass Key,” and also walks out on the stage to make a *“personal While Mr. Arnold’s entrance in the flesh is pre- ceded by a screen introduction which is, to say the least, flattering and while we should think such an avalanche of praise might make this excellent actor blush to follow on its trail, we suppose it is the right of every motion picture player to build himself up as best he can and while he can—and certainly Mr. Arnold is one of the most populat actors on the screen today. Mr. Arnold was slightly nervous yesterday at his first appearance, due to the fact that a mike sprang up suddenly in front of him and that he didn’t know quite what to do with it. After he had, however, gotten grace- fully around it, he told some Holly- wood yarns, did a scene from “Dia- mond Jim” and gave that interesting picture (it'’s a Universal film and will be shown September 1 at R-K-O Keith’s) the kind of a send-off that should do much toward interesting the public in advance. Mr. Arnold was welcomed “home” (he played four years at the National with Steve Cochran’s National Players) by a large and enthusiastic audience. “The Glass Key,” while not by any means the best of Dashiell Hammett's varns, should do much for George Raft. An actor who we frankly up until now have not been able to see for dust, he makes the most of his opportunities in this story of politics, murderers, gangsters and sweet wom- en, and wins out by a good deal more than a nose. He is helped not only by Mr. Arnold, who is cast as one of the men sus- pected of the murder of a Senator’s son, but by a husky called Guinn (Big Boy) Williams, who does a little gang- ster stooging with splendid realism. Others in the cast are Charles Rich- man, Claire Dodd, Ray Millan and Emma Dunn. The stage show also includes Carl Freed and his harmonica harlequins in a good act that you somehow can’t help comparing with Borah Minne- vitch’s; Mills and Martin with Jean Austin, who have one of the funniest stooges on the market, and Jordan and Grace, who open the bill with interesting “artistic novelties.” Eddie Perkins, singing usher, makes his usual hit, singing two of the popu- lar songs of the day with Phil Lamp- kin’s overture. * ok kX% CODOR—w be or not to be—is tak- ing up the minds of Keith's pa- trons this week, where “Becky Sharp,” Hollywood's first legitimate challenge to make producers forget black and white, is in its second week. Per- sonally, we'll take color any day—that is, if we can have Miriam Hopkins &nd such scenes as the balcony scene before the batfle of Waterloo with it. with color. It is too bright, it is too startling, it could never duplicate a humdrum moment in the kitchen. But since it has had an auspicious be- ginning—and “Becky Sharp” is auspi- cious for a number of reasons—there is no reason why it shouldn’t pick up and go on. And well bet our last shirt that before so very long black- and-white pictures will be as anti- quated as those films in which Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Miles Minter, William Farnum, Ruth Roland, Pearl White and Alice Terry used to be starred. Furthermore, if you miss “Becky Sharp” you'll miss Mariam Hopkins’ best performance to date. * k X X 'HE complaint about “No More Ladies,” now in its second week at the Palace, is that it presents the very rich and the extremely idle being extremely rich and very idle. This seems to us a very foolish notion in- | deed, since we have heard of many people who would give their all to be very rich and utterly idle. And since it gives Edna May Oliver an oppor- tunity to wiggle her nose, Charles Ruggles a chance to get himself royally in his cups, Joan Crawford a chance to marry Robert Montgomery and Franchot Tone a chance to look a little bored about the whole thing— there is no reason why you shouldn’t enjoy seeing these people in such richness and idleness very much. Seriously, though, “No More Ladies™ shouldn't be taken any more seriously | than “Forsaking All Others”—less so. | The lines are brighter, the clothes are smarter and there is just about as | much sense to it. Then, too, there is | a bridge game, a funny man (he plays the Englishman) called Treacher and Edna May Oliver (again) to save the ship when it seems to be sinking. ‘What more do you want? If you want “realism,” we recommend “the chil- dren’s hour.” Dance Recital Tonight. Thirty-five young dance students of the Alice Louise Hunter School will appear in a recital tonight at Ward- man Park Theater. The recital will mark the end of the Spring term and the beginning of the four-week Sum- We still think there’s lots wrong (mer course. DAILY SHORT STORY THE MASKERS She Tilted Her Head Invitingly to One Side and Smiled Up at the Unsuspecting Musician. BY JANTLEY MOLE. #J'LL be leaving a little earlier this evening,” Ned Gleason remarked to his wife at the breakfast table. “Want to stop off end bowl a few games before I pick up my cos- tume. We're play- ing that mask ball out at the country club tonight.” “Will there be & pocket in your costume tonight, dear?” Sibyl Glea- son’s tone of voice was a mixture of thin oil and acid. “Pocket? Pocket for what particu- lar purpose?” “For this per- fumed handker- chief that I found in your tuxedo this morning,” she said significantly, flinging her evidence into the center of the table. Ned Gleason looked at the crumpled handkerchief calmly. It was pale blue and had rouge stains on it. “Some of the boys are entertaining them- selves at your expense, darling. Think nothing of it,” he said. “Think nothing of it! I'm to think nothing of anything you might choose to do, I suppose! Nothing of that powder puff I found in your sax case Jast week! And the fact that you carried it around with you for three nights! Waiting for a chance to return it, no doubt!” She glared at him, then at the handkerchief, then at him again. “Now, listen darling,” Ned replied, trying to placate her. “The boys have to do something for amusement, and they happen to pick on me, that's all. Now forget about it, will you? You know I'm not out chasing other women.” “I'm not so sure about that, Ned Gleason! And I'm not so sure that youre not playing me for a fool! And the day I find it out I'm leaving you!” She flung back her chair and Jeft the room. It was hours before the gloom of her suspicions concerning her hus- band’s nocturnal labors cleared from Bibyl Gleason’s jealous mind. To the best of her imagination she had been picturing him in such post-dance activities as might involve the pieces - of evidence she had found—activities in which philandering women picked up at dances and parties were making @ fool of her husband. To begin with, the band was popu- lar and got around quite a bit. Then, too, Ned was handsome. Which com- bination, to her mind, was grounds enough for doubting any man. And her Ned was no different. She was racking her brain for means to an end when her eyes chanced on a piece 6f news in the paper before her. At first she merely glanced over it aimlessly. Then the + novelty of the idea caught her fancy; it concerned the masquerade to be held that night at the country club, at which Ned was going to play The lines read: “ . . among other novelties and unique features of the party will be the requirement that all participants remain masked during the entire evening. And in place of the customary oral com- munications between dancing part- ners, tonight's masqueraders will write their remarks, requests and replies on small individual pads to be issued 4 1t proved devastating. An idea sprung into Sibyl's mind, and from it was bred a plan that | struck her stroke of genius. She rented a cos- tume and had it altered to fit her perfectly. At her mother’s she found ready hands to powder her hair and make up her coiffure. A clever application of sun-tan make- up darkened her fair skin. By eve- ning her disguise was completed. The glamour of the gala night had reached its heights when Sibyl—ac- companied by her younger brother, who was drafted as escort—fixed her mask over her eyes and glided out on the glittering floor. She was in the bewitching guise of a charming Dolly Madison. “The band is masked, too,” she ob- served as she neared the music. How- ever, she had little difficulty in singling out her husband’s familiar array of gold-plated instruments. And, prompted by a desire to waste no time, she tilted her head invitingly to one side and smiled up at the un- suspecting musician playing over them. The effect was electric. He actually stopped playing that he might devour her beauty through the eyes of his mask. And as she was whirled away from him into the colors and con- volutions of the crowds, his enraptured gaze followed her intently. When she glided by him again she was closer and her artfully rouged lips were parted in the most prom- ising gesture that her designing femininity could simulate. It proved devastating. In his im- petuous striving to reciprocate her advances he seemed to be losing con- trol of his instrument; he was garbling his music. The number ended: the next began. And more followed, which gave Sibyl Gleason the opportunities she needed to build up her campaign. Before intermission was called she had achieved her end: A hastily folded note written on the small note pad paper provided by the dance com- mittee was slipped into her hand by an obliging passerby. “Darling,” it read, “I don’t know where I've been all your life. But now that I've found you let's waste no more time. There's nobody else in my life but you. Will you see me in the lobby during intermission?” It was signed “Saxy.” “The fool!” Sibyl cried aloud. “He’s given me the proof I've always want- ed!” And, slipping the coveted note into her bosom, she took a cab for home. Her prize piece of evidence was still burning at her breast when she burst through the door of her apart- ment. Suddenly she stopped, frozen in her tracks. There, in his pajamas, sat her hus- band. He was lifting up his hand, which was bandaged. “Smashed a couple of fingers at the bowling alley tonight, darling,” he said. “Had to get a substitute to take my chair out at the country club.” (Copyright. 1935.) Tomorrow: An operation which had one chance in a thousand for success is the central event in “Doctor’s Wife,” by G. C. Coler. JOE BROWN IS HERO IN TALE OF BASE BALL Wide - mouthed Come- dian Stars in ‘““Alibi Ike” at the Earle. “Alibi Tke” at the Earle Theater this week is a natural for base ball zealots and a pleasant Summer cpiate if you care to pass & few idle hours laughing over Joe E. Brown's rollicking gags. Probably no fiction writer ever knew as much about base ball players as the late Ring Larcner. Certainly no actor in the world knows or cares as much about the sport as Joe E. Brown, whose avowed ambition is to own a good ball club. The combina- tion of a story by Lardner, played by Brown, obviously couldn’t be beaten on the home grounds. Lardner was inclined to be some- what satirical in his views on the | heroes of our national sport. The | barbs have been blunted in his tale |of a player who had an alibi for ; everything he did, right or wrong, but the film version of the opus still carries punch. - A mixture of comedy, sentimentality and melodrama, it rises to no particular heights in any of them, yet moves with such canny | pace that its slightly shopworn inci- dents seems brighter than they are. Whale-mouther Mr. Brown deserves | most of the credit for this illusion. | He handles every phase of his charac- | terization shrewdly, even achieving }some semblance of emotional appeal | in his love scenes with a newcomer | named Olovia De Havilland, who re- sembles a half sophisticated Janet Gaynor. The climax of the story | comes, of course, when Alibi Ike escapes from some gangsters who had | kidnaped him to prevent his winning | a crucial world series game, returns to the ball park in his pajamas and | scores the winning run with a flying | dive over a waiting catcher's head. | | The anti-climax is the wedding of | Ike and his girl. { Despite assiduous devotion to gags, | | “Alibi Ike" is carelessly directed. (Or | | should we have said “because of the | assiduous devotion, etc.?”) We counted | no less than tnree glaring boners. | There are a lot of laughs to offset | them | The Earle boasts this week one of | the best balanced stage shows in | months. Dances by the Roxyettes, | whose precision antics and pleasant | smiles we liked; comedy by Pettet and | Douglas, songs by the handsome Vera | Van (don't miss that “Solitude” num- | ber. It's swell) and a combination | of the three by Rufe Davis and his radio rubes, an act which wowed the | first audience yesterday. | There is also an “Our Gang” com- edy and a newsreel, which includes the running of the Brooklyn Handicap. | You can learn a lot about the horse- racing game by watching it closely. | R. B. P, Jr. - , 'PREPARATORY SCHOOL RECITALS OF PUPILS Washington College of Music | Also Presents Certificates for Season’s Work. | Activities in the preparatory school |of the Washington College of Music continued throughout the week. Thurs- | day evening Lenna Orr Gauss pre-| sented a young contralto, Marion| Rueth, and Robert Ruckman students. | | Michacl Agriesti, Katherine Butler, {Ira Pearlman, Clarence Huffman, | | Irma Norwood, Forrest Ruppert and | | Evelyn Toye played. Tamera Dmitriefi's young pupils, Marjorie Vesta Wilkins and Martha Jean Livesay, were heard in a joint | recital Tuesday evening in a program | which included ensemble playing in | the duo piano arrangements of the | Handel “Harmonious Blacksmith” and | the Rimsky-Korsakoff “Bumble Bee.” | | Miss Wilkins has a simplicity of poise | | which pervaded her playing of the| | Bach “C Minor Prelude.” the “A| | Major Sonata,” by Mozart, and the | | Chopin “Nocturne in F Major.” Her | | facile execution was marked in the | iMosszwskl “Autumne.” Miss Live- | rsay’s playing has a dramatic sense, which she adopted to the Bethoven “Pathetique Sonata” with interesting results. She also played the Palmgren i “May Night,” “Serenade,” by Sinding, and the “Govotte” and “Musette,” by d’Albert. ‘Wednesday afternoon exercises were held for the presentation of certifi- cates to the first and through the fifth grades of the preparatory school. A pregram was played by Claire Nor- ris, Valerie Regardie, Mary Ryon, Mel- vin Sperling, Barbara and Beverly Hewey, Jane Bradbury, Ruth and Hugh Dryden, Millicent Vogel, Tully Scott, Margaret Drifmeyer, Anne Nor- ling, Peggy Bleth, Mary Rhoda Tackett, Shirley Evison, Zoe Mc- Combs, Alice Dubow, Beverly Gray, Lilly Naiman, Virginia Worthington, Dorothy Callahan, Anne St. John, Joy Yates, Mary Kenyon, Joshua Blum, Mildred Anderson, Carol Hollings- worth, Annette Richards, June Sper- ling, Mary Frances Staley, Harriet Kaplan, Frances Perry and Jean Benton. Wednesday evening the graduating class of the preparatory school re- ceived certificates from the president of the college and participated in & program. The class included Helen Marle Byars, Irma Naiman, Jeanne Kaplan, Margaret Cooley, Mildred Knofer, Martha Jane Livesay, Dorothy Brooks and Delores Florea. NAVY ROLLS TO REOPEN Moving to increase Navy enlisted strength to the 93,000 authorized by the $460,000,000 appropriation for next year, Secretary Swanson today ordered enlistments resumed on July 1 at the rate of 1,500 monthly. The present enlisted strength is 82,500, Probe of Isles to Open. Chairman Tydings announces the %gn;u lit])mmitbee investigating the irgin Islands would open hearin, Tuesday here. i AND HIS ORCH. LANK BOOK A Complete Selection in Stock See Us for Your ll'lni Books E.Morrison Paper Co. 1089 Pa. Ave. Phone NA, 2545 ‘, JUNE 29, 1935. Star in “China Seas” Clark Gable and Jean Harlow, leading players in “China Seas,” which has recently been completed at the M-G-M studios in Hollywood and will have an early showing at Loew’s Palace Theater. WILL ROGERS FILM AT THE COLUMBIA| | “Doubting Thomas"” Another Week on F Street | by Popular Demand. i ‘Will Rogers is perhaps the only per- son in Hollywood who has become box | office by being himself, without ben-| efit of hairdresser, an advertised love life or an expensive publicity agent. His latest impersonation of Will Rogers is contained in a film entitled “Doubting Thomas,” which pokes le- gitimate fun at amateur theatrics and | so pleased the local populace in its first visit to town that it was engaged | for a return week, beginning yester- day, at Loew’s Columbia. Once you have found out what it is| that Thomas doubts, the whole key to this particular opus lies .n its title. He happens to doubt that his wife, his friends and his son's sweetheart are as good actors and actresses as they imagine. Under the influence of an| arty and slightly crooked old lady,| who promises to guide them all to the | dramatic heavens, a group of small- town devotees of the muse stage a play. Thomas, an uninspired manu- facturer of sausages, thinks the whole business pretty terrible, and he does| not hesitate to say so. His remarks, | for once, are not half as funny as the | object of his ridicule—a home-talent performance to end all performances. ' With such expert comedians as| Billle Burke, Alison Skipworth and Andrew Toombs engaged in the slap- stick version of serious drammy, Mr. Rogers is more or less overshadowed | at times. He has his big moment, however, when he slaps on a wig and bleats into a microphons at a fake screen test, arranged to convince his wife that she should not leave him to become a second Duse. The story winds up prettily, with the wife con- tented to stay home and the custom- any pair of young lovers reconciled by benevolent Father Will. The Columbia program also in- cludes a variety of short subjects. R.B. P, Jr. BONDING BILL BACKED Steward Urges U. 8. Bear Cost| of Negotiating Surety. Support of a bill that would have the Government bear the cost of making bond for employes was voiced yesterday before a Senate Judiciary Subcommittee by representatives of the National Legislative Council of Federal Employe Organizations. Luther C. Steward, president of the National Federation of Federal Em- ployes, told the committee: “This bill should be reported fav- orably because it corrects a most un- fair situation in the Federal service. At present, more than 200,000 em- ployes are compelled to bear the ex- pense of bonds.” The American Federation of Gov- ernment Employes was represented by C. 1. Stengle. _ JOHNSON SPEAKS UP Voices “Go to Hell, Harry,” for Photo With Hopkins. Gen, Hugh S. Johnson’s vivid vo- cabulary came to his rescue yesterday when he was called on for small talk. Just hefore he started conferring with Harry L. Hopkins about New York City work relief plans, photog- raphers insisted on him “saying some- thing” to the relief administrator. The general gulped, and finally said: “Go to hell, Harry.” 442 at Fort Washington. The R. O. T. C. camp at Fort Washington is being attended by 442 young men from 23 universities, col- leges and military academies, it was reported yesterday by Maj. Joseph Patch, commanding. The camp Is composed of three companies, the personnei being made up of youths from educational institutions in all parts of the couniry. WHERE TO MOTOR AND D. Brierwood Manor Chicken and Ham Dinners, Luncheons Served Daily Sunday Dinner, 1 to 8 P.M. Facilitles for Parties On Lee Hishway, Route 211, 3 miles derend, Jusetion of Route 50. on wa¥ Phone Fairfaz 11-F-15 BAND CONCERTS. By the United States Soldiers’ Home Band, at the bandstand at 5:30 o'clock. John S. M. Zimmermann, ciate leader. March, “Let's Go” Overture, “Czar and Zimmermann" Lortzing Entr'acte— “Cinderella’s sion” . B “Cupid's Patrol” . Gems from the comic opera, Gondoliers™ Characteristic, * ol Waltz suite, Wedding Proces- Dicker Sullivan Fliege “Eileen Alannah” WELLS PIANO PUPILS IN RECITAL PROGRAM Young Players Receive Certifi- cates and Prizes for Work of Past Season. Etta Schmid Wells’ piano pupils ap- peared Thursday evening in Cleveland Park Congregational Church in a Spring recital. Through an exacting program beginners and advanced stu- dents presented uniformly good inter- pretations, marked with fine technique and rhythm, nice phrasing and a sing- ing tone. It is difficult to single out perform- ers for special comment, yet one might mention Alice Neuman’s playing of “Sonatina, Op. 266, No. 1,” by Lichner. She, as one of the younger puplils, played this exacting number with un- usual power. The rendition of the left-hand arrangement of the “Sex- tet from Lucia di Lammermoor” (Donizetti), Leschetizky, by Marjorie Morrison-Smith, Mrs. Wells' assistant, was very well done. Several of Miss Morrison-Smith's young pupils played well. Flora Blumenthal gave a brilliant interpretation of “Valse Arabesque” and Gerson Nordlinger was very fine in “Scherzo, C Sharp Minor, Op. 39, No. 3 by Chopin. Willlam David Nye played the dificult “Prelude, Op. 28, No. 15" (Raindrop), by Chopin, with intelligeace. Mrs. Wells was at the second piano with Betty Evans and her daughter, Sylvia Wells, in renditions. One number well done was “Prelude No. 1” from “The Well-Tempered Clavichord,” by Bach, played blind- folded by Mary Ellen Carter, to dem- onstrate the development of the tac- tile sense. Two piano numbers for four hands and two piano numbers for eight hands, added variety o a fine program. At the close of the recital, the 1935 District of Columbia Federation of | Music Clubs contest certificates were | presented to the following winners: | Flora Blumenthal, three prizes; Helen | | Brylawski, two prizes. Other winners | were Eleanor Blumenthal, Mary Ellen | Carter, Betty Evans, Alice Neuman, Mary Elizabeth Rasmussen, Elaine | Scher, Jane Wells, Joseph J. Wells | | and Phyllis Wichey. | Prizes for perfect attendance were | given to Eleanor Blumenthal, Cornelia | | Claiborne, Betty Evans, Judith Elaine | Kronheim, Carl Rasmussen, Hugh | Joseph Wells, jr.. Joseph J. Wells, | Kathryn Wickey, Phyllis Wickey and | Vivian Wickey. E. L } [CHINA’S LIGHTING ? TROUBLES AT MET| {0il for That Country’s Lamps, as | Told by Splendid Movie, Has Bonheur Finale, “Strenuous Lite” “The Star Spangled Banner.” By the United States Marine Band in the Amphitheater, Arlington Na- tional Cemetery, tomorrow at 6:30 p.m. Capt. Taylor Branson, leader. “March Religioso” ........Chambers “Andante Cantabile,” from “Sym- phony No. 5" Tschaikowsky Cornet solo, “Th . (Winfred Kemp.) “Kol Nidrei” “Largo” .. Trombone solo, Night” ..... (Harol Reve Angelique, “Calm as Bayes. “Kamenol Os- trow” . . Rubinstein “Romance” . ... Svendsen “Open the Gates of the Tem- ple” Knapp “The Star Spangled Banner.” NEW PASTOR TO BEGIN TERM HERE TOMORROW Rev. Rhode Island Avenue Metho- dist Pulpit for First Time. Rev. Raymond W. White, new pastor | of the Rhode Island Avenue Methodist | Protestant Church, First street and Rhode Island avenue, wiil occupy his pulpit for the first time at services tomorrow. The subject of his morning sermon will be “A Dynamic Gospel,” and at the evening service, he will preach on “Our Rebellious Youth.” He was assigned to the local church by the president of the Maryland An- nual Conference, and succeeds Rev. Dr. R. Y. Nicholson. DELEGATES CHOSEN D. C. Group to Attend Chi Sigma Convention. Alpha Province, Chi Sigma Sorority, has announced its selection of dele- gates to the sorority’s national con- vention in Baltimore, Md, July 18, 19. 20 and 21. ‘The delegates are Mrs. Mary Lou Collifiower, president of Alpha Prov- ince; Mrs. Elsie McNamara, Miss Josephine Sullivan, Miss Gladys Caw, Miss Blanche Hall, Mrs. Dorothy Casey, Miss Dorothy Councilman, Miss Olive Summers, Mrs. Betty McQueen, Miss Frances Brush and Miss Mar- jorie Mertz. DR. LYON TO SPEAK Brookings Institution Officer Will Address Fraternity. Dr. Leverette S. Lyon, executive vice president of the Brookings Insti- tution, will preside and speak at the monthly luncheon meeting of Phi Kappa Psi National Fraternity Tues- day @t the University Club. Charles LeFevre, local attorney, also will talk. ..Nevin | R. W. White to Occupy| Another Week's Run. | “Oil for the Lamps of China,” which | vesterday opened at the Metropolitan for its second week downtown, wheth- er or not it fully develops the theme expounded in Alice Tisdale Hobart's| novel, is sufficiently moving that 115‘ | tecser deficiencies are forgotten, and it would be considered a fine work if | for no other reason than that it pre- | sents one of the best screen perform- | | ances of the season on the part of | | Pat O'Brien. It is this performance of Mr. | O'Brien’s which makes the film as in- | telligent a document as it is. ‘While the photoplay is too episodic in its | construction to carry its theme in a| | clear, straight line, O'Brien’s charac- | | terization of a young man torn be- | tween devotion to his company and | | which he develops accurately. It is| this clearly defined character which | binds the various episodes into a single | dramatic entity. y The young bride, who aids Mr.| O'Brien in his idealistic struggles | | which crop up in the process of ught-i ing China’s lamps, is Josephine Hutch- | inson, & very competent actress, who| seems to fit herself admirably into the | character the story calls for. She| may fall down a bit on certain occa- sions, but she certainly makes up for | it in other scenes. These two players could make a| much less intelligent photoplay look | good, so it is natural that “Oil for the Lamps of China” should emerge as something worthwhile. The story itself has sweep and vigor in its de- tailing of the batile of a young man | to build a career and of the battering | given him by cross-currents and op- posing forces set up by his wife and | “the company.” All in all, it is a| safe bet that “Oil for the Lamps of | China” will come far from disappoint- ing you. ‘The Metropolitan's program also in- cludes the usual musical short, which is above average, and the also usual collection of newsreels. H M. o SHIFT MADE IN HOURS Commerce Department to Start 8:30-to-4 Schedule. | The Commerce Department will| shift working hours Monday, when | an 8:30-to-4-o'clock schedule will be | applied. Since the staggered hour plan went into effect, the Depart- ment has been working from 9:15 am. to 4:45 pm. Employes com- plained at the lateness of the quitting | hour. WHERE TO DINI WA T0LL HOUSE s e |, GOOD THINGS TO EAT s g e SEASIDE { Amusement Pack NORTH BEACH Chesapeake Beach ON THE BAY An ot the wa. shere through Wari- St Maiond Froe parking ot beash al Reund Trip 1 Day Onh‘ Busses Leave 408 11th St. N.W. For Infermation Call NAtdl. 0213 & A. Motor Lines, fie. Featuring Regular Dinners Seafood and a Ja carte meals dally from 11 A. M. NATURALLY AIR-COOLED AMUSEMENTS, San Francisco Is Setting For Series of Pictures Movies Turn to Nearby Scene for Stories of Life in Glamorous Western City. Unknown May Be Starred. BY MOLLIE latedly into its own with the find San Prancisco the most men this month, with stories H MERRICK. OLLYW®OD, Calif., June 29 (N.A.N.A.).—California comes be- cleaning up of cinema stories. We interesting locale to moving picture ranging from early days—"Barbary Coast”—to a later period of that city’s fascinating history, “Lady of Spain.” In “Sutter’s Gold” we have early California, in the days when the city by the Golden Gate was just a series of sand hills. Then there's “The Frisco Kid,” which has a sort of G-men of the past plot, dealing with the vigilantes and their successful end to crime waves in the pioneer town. To a real San Franciscan—and how | proud I am to say it's my home town— | there is no city in the world with such | adventure, such romance, such foggy beauty of steep hills and blue water, such keenness of salt-laden air, such | people with real blood in their veins, | descended from the pioneers of Cali- | fornia. This series of pictures will draw the eyes of the entire world to a city which does little or no bally- hooing about its charms. A city con- | tent to let the world find it, knowing full well that the world always loses its heart to San Prancisco's intangible | charm. Since each picture year provides | the world with 50 new faces and names | which may grow into star material, 1t is the opinion of Uncle Carl Laem- mle, who is making “Sutter’s Gold,” that a new face should be chosen for the name part instead of casting one of the already famous ones who have been suggested for Sutter. While Charles Laughton, Edwin Arnold, Henry Hull, Charles Bickford, Luis Trenker and Jean Hersholt have all been mentioned for the role, Lacmmle may follow his hunch and select an ! unknown for the part. If he does, it 'will be the break of a lifetime for some lucky man, Soldiers of fortune movies come back into favor with “Legionnaire,” a story of the warfare against the Riffs and their picturesque bandit, Abd-El-Krim. | Mervyn Leroy will direct this one and will stress the aviation angle of Held Over | bandmaster; Antod Pointner, asso- | Torbert, Jane Wells, Sylvia Wells, | the war, aided by Capt. Harold Buckley who had actual experience over there. French Legion pictures rarely fail in popularity. Remember “Beau Geste,” which brought Ronald Colman to star- dom and gave us a Bill Powell, who was the arch-villain of his day? This film introduced Ralph Forbes to the screen, too, if I'm not mistaken, and, since, its sensational popularity has been used as a pattern for more sol- dier pictures than you realize. Warner Bros. usually cash in on the current topics of the day. They have found that the timely story in- terests audiences more than anything else, provided you get your film on the screen before the public is talked out on the subject. The movies milked the gangster theme dry some time ago, so now they are concentrating on the Govern- | Where and When Current Theater Attractions| | and Time of Showing. Loew's Fox—"The Glass Key,” at| 11 am.. 1:35, 4:20, 7:05 and 9:50 p.m. | H | loyalty to his wife is a coherent one | Siage shows, with Edward Arnold in| xOF HAFEL person, at 12:45, 3:30, 6:15 and 9 pm, | Earle—“Alibi Tke” at 10:15 am.| 12:25, 5:15. 7:45 and 10 p.m. Stage| shows at 11:40 , 1:15, 4:25, 7 and | 9:15 pm. J Palace—“No More Ladies,” at 11/ am, 1:10, 3:20, 5:30, 7:40 and 9:50 p.m. R-K-0 Keith" 11:34 am., 1:1 and 9:52 p.m. Metropolitan—“0il for the Lamps “Becky Sharp,” at! 3, 4:43, 6:26, 8:09 7:15 and 9:20 p.m. | Columbia—Doubting Thomas,” at| 12:10, 2:05, 4, 6, 7:55 and 9:50 p.m. Tiveli—Baby Face Harrington,” at | 2:35, 4:35, 6:35, 8:10 and 9:50 p.m. Ambassador—"“Let "Em Have It.” at 1:30, 3:40, 5:45, 7:40 and 9:35 pm. | Gayety— ‘Mysteries of Life,” con- tinuous (for men only). | Roadside, Rockville Pike—“After Dark,” at 8:30 p.m. Odeon, Forest Glen, Md.—“A Mur- der Has Been Arrange 8:40 p.m. Direction of SIDNEY LUST 32 ROXY| VERA VAN & Orhers “ALIBI IKE™ CAW ALSO BE SEEN TOMORROW MON, AND TUES. AT THE AMBASSADOR PSR ARAD IF T .N METROPOLITA FINAL DOWNTOWN WEEK LAMPS oF CHINA A @pain Producton & Firm Nunons) Prc phine Pat Josej 0'BRIEN+HUTCHINSO J £ 55 foc « Sookon Pemted /) KEITH/S "< 2 Week— MIRIAM HOPKINS in the first feaiure ol in the woadrow NEW TECHNICOLOR . . . @_;!;cxr »8»BARP" H.RIDER HAGGARD'S “SHE” with HELEN GAHAGAN 'ROM MORE THAN FIFTY ;MUSEMENTS. SWIMMING, DANCING, ETC., AT BIG ment agent angle of this ever-intrigu- ing subject. “Special Agent Z,” so I am told, will give you the story of Al Capone and how the Government finally got him because of income tax evasion. To Ricardo Cortez falls the job of be- ing the gangster—though he is far more romantic looking than most of the bad boys in real life. Bette Davis | and George Brent are cast on the right side of the social line, and you know how the story ends. (Coprrigh: 5. by the North American Newspaper Alliance, Inc.) Music Competition Announced. The division of music, Library of Congress, announces open competition for the Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge prize. The prize will go to the best work of chamber music written for four-stringed instruments. The con- test will close September 30, 1936. AMUSEMENTS. and o the screes with GEORGE RAFT-CLAIRE DODD YGLASS KEY' alyo OTHER ACTS URDER IN THE ) E M FLEET- S ROSES SMALL TIME uvfifi Stage Rolit.MONTGOMERY *NO MORE LADIES” wit FRANCHOT TONE.. EDONA MAY OLIVER-CHARLES RUGGLES Cutna. & WARDY COMEDY TAM POWELL Fra SRR A MMCOLUIA SCAPADE" OGE "DOUBTING THOMAS” E. Lawrence Phillips' Theatre Beautiful Matinee, 1:00 P.M. PRESTON FOSTER and MELVYN DAVIS in OPLE'S ENEMY." ‘Also BOB _STEELE in “BIG CALIBRE." ASHTON CLARENDON. VA s LIONEL BARRYMORE and LA LUGOSI ke E CAROLINA ... SHOOTER. INESS CIRCLE 2105 | WE. 09053 s Mat. Tues., Thurs., Sat., Sun ACK BARR] “UN- Eometies DUM 1343 Wisconsin Ave BUCK JONES i “DOG_OF FLANDERS " PRINCESS (/110 0 st RE Sl Completely Air-Cooled uble Feature—PRESTON FOSTER in THE PEOPLE'S - RIN in “WOLF RIDERG JACK PER SECO_ Siiver § Continuous From el THOMAS' in Ave. 5 ing. Md. 00 | of China,” at 11 am., 1, 3:05, 5:10, WALLACE BEERY and ROBERT YOUNG “West Point of the Air.” Comedy. News. Also an Added Chapter 6 of “Tai STANTON ri2 %05 8 Finest Sound ' IBNEY, A7 QENE e R e SR ey STATE o0 Wi Nrer: 5o Last Times Today! At 3:30_8:00. £30. 11:00 PM BEAR-BRADDOCK FIGHT, Also MIRTAM HOPKINS in “SHE LOVES ME NOT.” Pai Continuous Prom 1 M. GEQRGE O'BRIEN in “COWBOY MILLIONAIRE.” JEAN PARKER in “PRINCESS OHARA" _ HIPPODROME ~ X_Nesp, 2t Warner Baxter. “Hell in the Heavens." CAMEO MT. RAINIER. MD, . Double Feature Georse O'Brien. “When a Man's a an Lew_Ayres ‘“Lotterv Lover.” ARCAD HYATTSVILLE. MD. ) Double Feature George O'Brien, “Cowboy Millionaire.” Robert Flaherty, "\ an_of Aran. RICHMOND ALEXANDRIA, Vi Warren William in “Case of the Curious_Bride.” AMBASSADOR 18th St & Col. Rd. N.W. Col. 5595 “Mickev's Service e Comedy. _ Ga. Ave. & arut St. N.W. Ge. 6500. " Comedy 1230 C 8. NE. Phone Li. 10296, :00 P.M. it NFORMER." " Carioon. 14th S8t. & Col. Rd. N.W, Phone Col. 4968. WARNER BROS. THEATERS ELL Comedsy. Double Feature — “SWELL HEA] WALLACE FORD: BARBARA KENT. “THE COWBOY MILLIONAIRE " GEORGE O'BRIEN. Serial. Cartoon. Mafinee. P.M SYLVAN % CURIOUS BRIDI LIAM. MARGARET Western Featurette Gang Comedy. Matinee. 1 PALM_THEATER >, “BABY_ PACE H RLES BERNHEIMER’S 4