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note, having acted everything from Queen Elizabeth to Hedda Gabler in the spacious gardens and auditorium of the Arts Club, her words may be recorded as fact and her reactions as the reactions of one who has weath- ered both the world and the theater. Miss Ives knows a good actress when | she sees one and the fact that she gives Miss Temple a compliment is something that this young lady should photoplays is beginning to pall on a small section of the public. Miss Temple goes ahead in leaps and bounds, her talents growing with her years, there are other infant prodigies AMUSEMENTS. Only One Shirley;"T emple Says Sad Local Manager Prominent Theater Man Deplores the Fact That When Shirley’s in Town No Cther Child Actress Can Do Business. BY E. de S. MELCHER. W ALKING downtown yesterday evening we came upon Anne Ives walking uptown. Miss Ives, handsomely gowned in something white, with a new straw hat sitting precisely on her head, had | program. just been to the Palace to see Shirley Temple. Said she: “This is the first time I've seen Shirley Temple when I haven't wanted to crown her’—or words to that effect—implying that she had had a very good time indeed at “Curly Top” and that be classed among her favorites. Since Miss Ives is a local actress of | her take only the And that's take with her to her grave. The business, however, of “child” While direct “Le and Bartholomew, as good as from now on Miss Temple may hands—and nobody's, going to it from her. Even little Freddie he is, is a minor challenge to her crown of popularity. Keep the kids at home should be coony producers motto today. when Shirley’s in town for heaven sakes don't unearth another infant to top here. It can't be done, s all—can it, Mr. Meakin? * ok o 'HE latest information about Henry Fonda, new film star, who will be seen shortly in “The Farmer Takes a Wife,” comes from Bernard Szold, tor of New Orleans’ well-known Petit Theater du Vieux Carre” formerly associated with the THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGT! Lady Tubbs in Person CIVIC CENTER PLAYERS OFFER GILBERT PLAY Navy Band Also Heard at Sylvan Theater—Dance Features Shown. ucm’mflm OF IMPULSE” a merry cne-act fantasy by V. S. Gilbert, performed cleverly by the Community Center Players, was the feature of last night's Sylvan Theater A throng of some 5,000 crowded the Monument slope to see the highly diverting Summer evening An old, old lady, who has some mystic power which enables her to go without eating, and who lives at an inn without bothering to pay rent, is the chief interest in *Creatures of Impulse.” She has also mystic powers, which enable her to cast a curse on any individual she chooses. When attempts are made to oust her from the inn she makes a gallant grenadier of the King cringe from everybody as if in fear, makes a miser go about passing out cash, makes a cowardly yokel start a fight with anybody he meets and makes an exceedingly shy maid at the hmzelry dash about kissing every one on sight. It's all very funny and has some happy lines. Last night's performance of the merry Gilbert piece was marked by several neat characterizations. The most notable of these was the por- trayal of the aged crone by Yerby D. C, WEDNESDAY, JULY 31, 1935. ALL-IRISH PROGRAM Plays and Songs Are Given at the Arts Club. Tnt sturdy people of the land of the Shamrock had their inning last evening, when an all-Irish pro- gram was presented in auditorium of the Arts Club of Washington. Two one-act plays afd an interlude of songs conprosed the entertainment. “The Shadow of the Glen,” by J. M. Signe, found Dan Burke, crusty bucolic, rising in his wrath at what was planned as his wake, and send- ing his wife out into the wind and rain. Dan, played by Lee Barbash, vented his not inconsiderable spleen in a most thorough manner, while Edna Ellis Hilton aroused sympathy as the unhappy spouse, giving re- peated voice to the truth, “We are all getting old.” Creditable perform- ances, too, by Andrew Dent in the role of the young sheep herder, who came on the scene with the intention of wooing the supposedly bereaved Nora, only to find himself imbibing spirits with her as yet earth-bound husband, and by Miner Ellis, self- appointed protector of the outcast wife. The second piece was “The Work- house Ward,” by Lady Gregory, with Messrs. Ellis and Barbash returning to portray two aged rustics, tenants of a workhouse, hurling invectives to and fro with elan undiminished from other days when they were ngfighbors. However, when Edna Hil- ton enters to offer the place of “man AMUSEME NAMED BY VARIETY CLUB R UDOLPH BERGER, local head of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Ex- change and chief barker of the Wash- ington Varlety Club, and Carter Bar- ron, Loew's Eastern division manager, today were named to important Na- tional Variety committee posts by National Chief Barker John H. Harris in Pittsburgh, Pa. Beruer Berger was named & mem- publicizes the affairs of all National Varfety tents. Varieteer Barron was named the main guy, or chairman, of the Midway Concession Committee and also was named to another im- portant *group. The Midway Concession Committee supervises the ' installation of new tents in other cities, acts on the applications of cities desiring to es- tablish units of Variety and in- vestigates the activities of all ex- isting tents. The other committee to which Barron was named will act in a supervisory capacity over all tents of Variety in this sector. A SMART WAY... TO BEAT o af LOEW'S v A SEAY THE HEAT..FINJ a6 THEATRES ber of the Billers’ Committee, whicl: | NTS FRIDAY e GEORGE feo: 0| DAVIS SRENTR N\ FR GEE o i \ GRACE MOORE -::+ DAYS Columbia's Hit LOVE ME FOREVER GUY K 1§ EDW. EVERETT HORTON A Warser B GOING HIGHBROW 3 Pannill. Miss Pannill's make-up was LIONEL ATWILL grand, and she did the old lady in a manner which belied her comparative youth. Another well-done bit of work was Edythe Lazaroff Goldman's very shy niece of the landlady, the young lady who was forced by the curse to do certain excessive Kkissing. Miss Goldman had a lot of fun reading her part. Richard MidgRdy, clad in a red coat, a drum major’s fur hat and the longest mustache ever seen locally (and the | other necessities), did another neat | job, playing the gallant sergeant who had to duck every one against his | will, George Farrington played the miser, Adele Whiteside the landlady and James Rawls the yokel, all per- forming well. Arthur Rhodes directed | the smoothly done fantasy. “The Flirtation,” a dance panto- mime by Frank Forrester, about a chap who attempts, in the end unsuc- cessfully, to desert his wife in the | park for a bit of an affair with an-| other lady, was done with finesse by; FEDERALLY RECOGNlZEDf of the house,” left vacan® by the death of her husband, to her brother, one of the ancients, he refuses to leave except in company with his quarrel- ing partner. Curtain finds both of the old boys remaining in the work- house and going at it tooth and nail again. Dorothy S. Pierson rendered a group of Irish folk songs between the plays, which were directed by Edna Ellis Hilton. Miss Pierson was accom- panied at the piano by Helen Grimes. —C. A. M. Omaha Community Playhouse. Mr. Szold, who was good enough to drop into this office yesterday, showed us who instead of bringing customers to the theaters are frightening them away. Producers seem to think that there’s a Temple around every corner | clippings of Mr. Fonda's early work and that any young thing with a |in the theater—when he was very dimple and a grin is worth “starring.” | young and before he had come to A smart manager in town warned | Washington to appear at the Be- us about this state of affairs yesterday. | Jasco—and said that not only was Browsing over his rolls and coffee ¥ | he a very good actor when he was a the Washington tap room, Mr, Hardie | brief 19, but that he was especially (Keith’s) Meakin shed a bitter tear | clever as a technician and as a scenic as he thought of what a small busi- | designer. ness “Ginger” had done. “They just| His father, Brace Fonda, who lives won't come to see a kid picture when | in Omaha, is on the board of the Shirley Temple's in town,” said he. theater there and has always been | “One Shirley Temple's enough.” And | keenly interested in dramatics. by that he meaat that even talented, | Mr. Szold first directed son Henry | freckled, “cunning” Jane Withers |in “A Kiss for Cinderella”—which, by | couldn’t bring them in when Miss | the way, might make a good film star- Temple is “slaying ‘'em” a little | Fing vehicle for him, too. further down the street. e “No sir,” said Mr. Meakin—*“the A' A. A‘ PLANS TRIP public won't go to more than one kid picture a week. Why do you know » TR R P that people have beea calling me up | A trip to Norfolk and Virginia asking me when Alice Brady or some | Beach Saturday under sponsorship of “respectable grown-up film is coming | the A. A. A., District motor club, has to town’ You mention little miss |been anaounced as the second event s0-and-so to them and they die.” in a series of 1935 travel season trips. Mr. Meakin must be right. His| Those attending will leave here by | theater, which hits the Treasury Build- | boat Saturday afternoon, cruising ing right in the eye, is a focal point | down the Potomac to Norfolk and in this city’s amusement business. At | from there going to Virginia Beach 4:30, when the working world hies | €ither by authomobile or bus. Private | itself either to its evening repast or | CATS may be taken on the boat. After to an hour or so of entertainment, |8 day at the beach the cruise mem- Keith’s knows if a show is popular or | bers will retura the same way, arriving | not. A crucial hour in the day's| home early Monday. schedule the ticket-seller is then either swamped with coin or she may sleep until the after-dinner trade starts roll- ing. During “Ginger” she had a nice long sleep. Customers in the vicinity of the Treasury Building just couldn’t be interested in Jane Withers. In| spite of the fact that she was billed as that horrid little girl (grown good) who once played with Shirley Temple, | weary workers turned up their noses at this “children’s hour” and stomped home to their puddings and husbands. Such an out-and-out demonstration against juvenile talent frankly sur- prised Manager Meakin. He was set for a red hot week. Reviewers had praised Miss Withers to the skies— billing her either just ahead of Miss Temple or a mite behind her. The truth of the matter is, how- ever, that there’s only one Shirley Temple—and enough’s enough. Be- yond that the public doesnt care. Producers by now should wake up to the fact that even if their prodigy is one better than Miss Temple no- body is going to pay attention. Shir- ley has the juvenile market right in Where and Whe Current Theater Attractions and Time of Showing. S Nationa’ Symphony Orchest Hans K r, Musical Director Watergate near Lincoln Memorial Tonight—S8 P.M. Sandor Harmati, guesi conductor Soloist—Winifred Cecil. & Beats—: G . Boc, § Nat! 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Opposite U. 5. Treasury on I5th Sk oSftarts TODAY.! ALICE BRADY Is featured at R-K-O Keith's in “Lady Tubbs” a new comedy which begins its week's engagement there today. Douglas Montgomery plays LANK BOOK s A Complete Selection in Stock See Us for Your Blank Books Christine Stewart, who also directed the pantomime; Marjorie Beall, Rich- ard Godley and Howard Whitfield. Musical accompaniment was by Ever- ett Stevens. “The Flirtation” was followed by a | dance interlude by Alice Louise Hunter | and her dance group, to Kreisler's “Liebesfreud.” Girls taking part, in addition to Miss Hunter, were Kath- |} leen Davis, Dorothy Manning, Marjorie | Passed the mental, professional and | McGann, Marie Robinette and Cath- | Physical examinations required by erine Shea. Edith H. Hunter was| laW. the accompanist. The officers are Capt. Hugh Everett, The first portion of the program was | Jf-» Infantry; First Lieut. Anthony B, given over to a concert by the United | C. Graves, Coast Artillery; Pirst Lieut. States Navy Band, directed by Lieut, | James Franklin Angier, Coast Artil- Charles Benter. The program in-|lery, and First Lieut. James M. Vo- cluded “The Liberty Bell.” by Sousa; | tava, Coast Artillery, the overture to “Die Meistersinger von Nurnburg,” by Wagner; “Southern Cross,” by Clarke, plaved as a cornet | solo by Oscar Short; “Capriccio | Espagnole,” by Rimsky-Korsakow; | “Southern Roses,” by Strauss, and | Liszt's “Second Hungarian Rhapsody.” H M BAND CONCERTS. By the United States Marine Band at 7:30 pm. at the United States Capitol. Capt. Taylor Branson, lead- | er; Arthur S. Witcomb, second leader. At the Navy Yard at 7.30 p.m. by | the United States Navy Band. Lieut.| Charles Benter, leader; Alex. Morris, assistant leader. Four District of Columbia National Guard officers have been extended | Federal recognition by the War De- | partment, it was announced today at Do of the chiet of the Nationai | E. Morrison Paper Co. Guard Bureau. 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DINNER MUSIC 6 to 7 Dinner and Supper Dancing 8 to 2 LEON BRUSILOFF'S ORCHESTRA Earle—“Broadway Gondolier,” at 11 am, 1:35, 4:25, 7:10 and 9:45 p.m. Stage shows at 12:45, 3:35, 6:25 and 9 pm. Loew's Fox—"“Murder Man,” at 11 am., 1:40, 4:25, 7:10 and 9:55 p.m. Stage shows at 12:50, 3:35, 6:20 and 9:10 pm. R-K-O Keith’s—“Lady Tubbs,” at 11:44 am, 1:48, 3:52, 5:56 and| 10:04 p.m. | Palace—“Curly Top,” at 11:20 a.m., 1:25, 3:30, 5:35, 7:40 and 9:45 p.m. Metropolitan—“Love Me Forever,” at 11:35 am., 1:30, 3:30, 5:25, 7:25 and 9:25 pm. Columbia—"Escapade,” at 11:20 a.m., 1:25, 3:30, 5:35, 7:40 and 9:45 pm. Tivoli—“No More Ladies,” at 2:20, 4:10, 5:55, 7:40 and 9:30 p.m. Ambassador—“Under the Pampas Moon,” at 6:15, 8 and 9:50 p.m. Roadside (Rockville pike)—“Trilby,” at 8:30 pm. Sylvan Theater (outdoors, Monu- ment Grounds)—“Program of Youth,” at 7 pm. “RUMBA." MARGOT GR. 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